Thanks Jeremy - that would help for Mat's use case of a custom action on navigate - I was hoping for something in the hover / tooltip area. Is there anything similar?
On Tuesday, March 23, 2021 at 7:22:58 AM UTC-4 Stobot wrote: > We're on the same page Mat - sorry if I was unclear, while doing a macro > is possible, my question instead is how to hijack the normal [[...]] logic > as you've implied. > > I'm guessing it's either something I can tweak in "Inline Parse Rules", or > a modification / additional javascript around the wikification process > itself. > > On Tuesday, March 23, 2021 at 7:00:51 AM UTC-4 Mat wrote: > >> You can probably make a macro to call like <<link "Bob Ross">> and the >> macro checks up what type of tiddler "Bob Ross" is and acts accordingly. >> Maybe the $LinkWidget can also show wikitext tooltips that uses the current >> title (i.e the linked to title) as argument - I don't know if this is >> possible. >> >> What I would much rather see - so it doesn't disturb the workflow when >> authoring - is a direct logic that is invoked when using the [[...]] >> syntax, because this syntax is "the smooth one". It could be attached to >> some template but what exact template to apply could be customized based on >> some characteristic of what is linked. E.g "Bob Ross" is tagged Contact so >> the contacttemplate is used. Maybe it could even specify what happens when >> the link is clicked! This would make it possible to have [[bobross]] >> [[BobRoss]] and [[Bob Ross]] all navigate to [[Bob Ross]]. >> >> Just maybe PMarios linking plugin, whose name just escapes me, uses >> something like this... >> >> <:-) >> >> On Tuesday, March 23, 2021 at 11:41:26 AM UTC+1 Stobot wrote: >> >>> I had an idea today and am trying to figure out how difficult it would >>> be to do. Say we use TiddlyWiki for project management (as I do), we will >>> be writing "journal" type tiddlers and using as many links as possible for >>> future reference. >>> >>> For example: "On [[2021-03-23]] I had lunch with [[Bob Ross]] and talked >>> about [[Painting]] and his favorite place to paint which is [[France]]" >>> >>> Now, I know that: >>> >>> - [[2021-03-23]] is a tiddler that is tagged "Date" >>> - [[Bob Ross]] is a tiddler that is tagged "Contact" >>> - [[Painting]] is a tiddler that is tagged "Hobby" >>> - [[France]] is a tiddler that is tagged "Place" >>> >>> Is there somewhere that I can insert logic to add to the logic of the >>> internal link that is ultimately rendered? For example, for a "Contact", I >>> might have "profilepic" in a field for [[Bob Ross]], and on the >>> tooltip/hover I might want to display his picture, for the date, maybe a >>> calendar tooltip, and for Hobby, maybe a list of other hobbies, or maybe >>> recent entries also related to Painting. >>> >>> I could use macros instead of links and insert logic there - such as use >>> <<mylink "Bob Ross">> and in the macro check for the tag and insert all of >>> my stuff, but then I can't use things like CompText, backlinks probably >>> wouldn't work etc. >>> >>> Any ideas? >>> >> -- 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/d95cee47-ea6e-44d9-b481-3613b4246b11n%40googlegroups.com.
