On Wednesday, April 14, 2021 at 5:59:45 AM UTC+2 springer wrote:
> Mark, thanks for mentioning that related plugin. As far as I could tell on
> my first browse-through when it was first announced, uni-link changes how
> links display, but they still need to use [[hard markup|?]]. ("It allows
> users to assign an aliases field to tiddlers, that can be referenced with a
> slightly modified link syntax.")
That's right.
> My use case, though, involves chunks of text pasted into the wiki from
> other sources, so I'm not wanting to go in and set up [[links-like-this|?]]
> all over the place. The freelinking is essential, and my hack is designed
> to cast a wider net for certain freelink-worthy terms.
>
If one of your major goals is to _not_ modify the original text, you have
to have freelinks active. I think your usecase is a valid one for using
freelinks.
I'm not the biggest fan of freelinks, because of its performance
implications, that's why *I did not have a look at the freelink code yet*.
I don't know, if there would be a possibility to make it work with the
uni-link alias-functionality. I even think atm the plugins won't work
together. ... But I didn't test that either.
> Are you suggesting that uni-link would integrate with freelinks and help
> in this use-case? Crucial to my situation: I still want the actual variant
> strings within tiddlers to continue displaying *whatever it was* that the
> original author typed...
>
I'll have a look at the code. ... I am interested to speed up alias
handling with its own trie <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie>-based index.
> So far, it strikes me that uni-link is designed for roughly the contrary
> challenge to mine: a systematic single-author wiki where author wants to
> use a concise markup to streamlines the cumbersome old [[workarounds for
> plurals and such|workaround]], while also enabling retroactive global
> changes to how certain [[hardlinked variants|c]] display.
>
Exactly right!
> (So, if I change my dog's nickname, all I do is update the caption field
> for the dog's tiddler... Standard links to the dog's official name [[Rex]]
> still look and function the same, but any uni-links via the caption
> [[Rex|c]] immediately all show the new nickname. Cool! But not what I need
> to do...)
>
> Happy to hear if you think I'm misunderstanding...
>
You are right.
have fun!
mario
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