At first I thought you were out in the woods... but maybe you're onto something!
Transclusions with templates do indeed let you show anything, including just a plain link as if it *is *a plain link. In another thread <https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/discussions/5564> I am asking if we could make [[bracket links]] more intelligent so they do different things depending on content. I gave these examples: - ...Clicking on [[Bob Ross]] in the in the "Profiles" tiddler opens the "Bob Ross" tiddler but clicking on [[Bob Ross]] in the "Contact us" tiddler opens a "sendto" tiddler. - ...and clicking on [[Bob Ross]] when he is *tagged* with "Alert" does something special - ...and clicking on [[bobross]] also opens the "Bob Ross" tiddler because I've made missing links cleverly guess tiddler or look them up in a dictionary. My hope in that thread is that there's some way to manipulate "the mechanism" for whatever is used when [[this]] is converted into *this*. I'm hoping there is, or could be, a *template *that is used for this conversion that could be manipulated. The main point is to NOT have to fiddle with widget commands that totally interrupt ones mind flow (which is essential during e.g live note taking or when *authoring prose *in TW, as opposed to hacking in TW). But your idea here might just solve this! At least partly because one would still have to specify template. - Does {{transclusion}} without any specified template use a default template that can be manipulated? Then, for your backlinks idea, it could be made so that calling the transclusion at, say, the very bottom of a tiddler automatically means it should be for backlinks. So we can do this {{||backlinks}} to show backlinks in the current tiddler. And one could design a template for {{||template}} that intelligently/contextually shows different things, like in my example above. <:-) On Wednesday, March 24, 2021 at 4:29:25 AM UTC+1 [email protected] wrote: > G'day all, > > The "Can we customize internal links? > <https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/3jjkQ0v7EK0>" got me thinking > ... > > Would it be useful for "backlinks" (the operator and the InfoPanel tab) to > consider not only links but also consider transclusions as links? > > I can't help but think it would be helpful to use transclusions with > templates to create very customized links. > > For highly customizable links: Instead of a link like [[some_tiddler]], > one could instead have {{ some_tiddler || some_link_styling_template }} > > I suppose I don't see a distinction between a link to a tiddler and a > transclusion of a tiddler in the sense that I consider one being a backlink > just as much as the other. > > Any thoughts? Would this be worth putting in as a formal request? > > Of course, even if something could be done, I always like to pause for a > second and wonder: should it? > -- 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/423f4013-1252-490e-95ad-6e9a503c535fn%40googlegroups.com.
