Ah I see that does make sense. I think then I'll stick with drag and drop for the time being.
Thanks! On Thu, Sep 3, 2020, 17:56 'Mark S.' via TiddlyWiki < tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com> wrote: > I think it means there some plugins meant for node.js that need to be > installed in a directory (maybe because they need to communicate directly > with the operating system). > > For most 3rd party plugins I think you're OK with d&d. But if you have a > plugin that needs to directly communicate with the OS or over the internet, > then you will need to install local plugin directories. > > If you have official plugins, then you can "install" them just by listing > them in the tiddlywiki.info file. You do not want there to also be a > drag-and-drop plugin version of them because the d&d version will block the > latest copy of the official version. The idea is that your official plugins > will automatically be upgraded on node.js when you upgrade your tiddlywiki > installation on node.js. > > Having said that, if you're using code-mirror, and your drag-and-drop > version seems to be working, maybe just stick with it for the current > generation. It seemed to me that there was some internal inconsistency with > the next gen of code-mirror. Whenever I tried to do the official install, > things broke. But that's just my thinking. > > > Good luck! > > > > On Thursday, September 3, 2020 at 5:49:25 AM UTC-7, demon...@gmail.com > wrote: >> >> So I have my nodejs server up and running, but I did not want to start an >> entirely new wiki, instead I wanted to import my old wiki and continue >> using that. I imported it via just drag and dropping my .html file onto the >> newly made empty wiki. It imported everything just fine and everything >> seems to work ok. >> >> However, I noticed that installing plugins in nodejs >> <https://tiddlywiki.com/static/Installing%2520custom%2520plugins%2520on%2520Node.js.html>server >> should *not *be done by drag and dropping them as individual tiddlers >> but instead you should make plugins folder in the server and put them there >> and tell in the tiddlywiki.info file what plugins to load. It is said >> that: >> >> > Note that including a plugin as an ordinary tiddler (e.g. by dragging >> and dropping a plugin into the browser) will result in the plugin only >> being active in the browser, and not available under Node.js. >> >> So what does this *actually *mean? All my old plugins were installed >> this way when I was not using nodejs. They still seem to work fine. Should >> I remove all my plugins installed with drag and drop and install them >> manually as per the link? >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tiddlywiki/bYH7e50PkhE/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/67f67a49-d393-4750-953d-5591f6c135d7o%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/67f67a49-d393-4750-953d-5591f6c135d7o%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/CAOv-5H8qpc86KoYd_xhMPHjoBHW%2Bs9D%3DSX8ZBH29DRw_d76fyQ%40mail.gmail.com.
