TW Tones wrote: > > I was just reviewing your EditorMagic again and see how it can look up the > documentation on widgets, what a fantastic feature. >
In deed! I think once people get the power of a (well working) EditorMagic, they'll wonder how they survived before it. > When it comes to EditorMagic insertions; > > - I can see that there is a bit of work to be done to populate it with > useful insertions, kind of a sample and generalised syntax's for each > widget. > > I raise this because I would like to help, and wonder if they would be > better as separate tiddlers or an interface to read and edit them were > available to simplify. > Since you started by commenting on the *widget docs* tool, I'm guessing you're referrign to the *widget picker <http://editormagic.tiddlyspot.com/#EditorMagic%2FWidgetPicker>* tool that inserts the widget and its various parameters, and which currently fetches that data from a dictionary tiddler <http://editormagic.tiddlyspot.com/#EditorMagic%2FWidgetPicker%2Fdic>. Yes, I appreciate all the help I can get - thank you! - and, yeah, maybe it's better to have each "widget info" in a separate tiddler, I don't know. As you probably note, I've only sloppily filled in the parameter list for a few of them because it turns out to be... quite a lot of work. > - Lets call this the "syntax library" for tiddlywiki widgets and macros > > Sure! > > - I have long desired Tiddlywiki.com to have more generic full syntax > examples I can copy to clipboard and use, a single syntax, you delete the > parameters you don't need, or a few different ones when they are > substantially different forms. > > Yes but for some I feel there are so many parameters that it might be more work to erase them than to type in the few you need (e.g the ButtonWidget <https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/#ButtonWidget>- mama mia!) > > - If we can agree on a standard that works with editor magic and on > tiddlywiki.com the community could build them for the community. Then > the latest up to date general syntax could be accessed from a plugin and > feed into other solutions including learning editions of tiddlywiki and > Editor Magic. > > A main idea with EditorMagic is that people can fill the popup with whatever they want, so the "standard" you refer to would rather be one that works with the/a widget picker tool :-) The current implementation for the widget picker is just a proposal, mostly to demo what EditorMagic can be used for. Practical approach > > If we had an easy way to generate standalone syntax tiddlers that could be > submitted for addition to tiddlywiki.com by anyone, and a method on the > widget documentation to list any such syntax tiddlers inside the > documentation tiddler (perhaps a tag or equivalent field. This method allow > more rapid inclusion in to tiddlywiki.com with less oversight needed. A > simple export to json for all syntax widgets would allow you or anyone else > to harvest the syntax's. > I'm not sure I follow fully but it did strike me that it would be neat if the tiddlywiki.com docs had a defined format for e.g the parameters of widgets or other stuff, so one could automate this. A kind of docs api. E.g so one could fetch data by means of e.g a filter ( [fetch:fields[ButtonWidget]] ). I wouldn't hold my breath for this though ;-) I did experiment and discuss <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tiddlywiki/E6i2vu2Ht4c> a few ways to generate the widgets list because it is a shame to hard code this. It is currently generated based on the widgets found in the core code but there are inconsistencies. A major thing for working with tiddlywiki.com is of course that any changes to that place is up to Jeremy. <:-) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/840f88fc-008f-4611-bb4d-939aace030b6o%40googlegroups.com.
