On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 4:43 PM Mat <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for encouragement everyone.
>
> @TiddlyTweeter wrote:
>
>> There is *ONE thing* missing that could be a Godsend. FIND a macro???
>>
>
> I agree, and that is actually exactly what I'm fiddling with! But I'm not
> sure exactly how to approach it. The problem is not the coding but that
> several macros are just not meant for end users. A prime example are
> various "sub macros" only meant to support a main macro. In the core, many
> of these are titled xxx-inner but I suspect many are not. And for communty
> created plugins, there's of course no consistency at all to name submacros.
>

That is quite true! I like very much to have some kind of good programming
styles, some recommendations!




>
> Futher, there are well over 200 core macros so the list is too long. The 
> "public"
> core macros <https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/#core%20macros> are just
> these (ca 35).
>
> So I'm thinking of a two list display (like in the SysTags tab) with
> common macros + a separate complete list where you can "checkbox" macros to
> add them to the common list. I figure it'd be nice if one can add custom
> comments about what various macros do. I.e they're presented in a table
> showing the macro name + its parameter list + an editor for comments. Any
> thoughts on this?
>
> Maybe the macros should be findable via some search mechanism... using the
> SearchDirectory feature... but then a simple dictionary list might not work
> because that is just for direct search terms rather than descriptions. I
> don't have a clear idea how to implement this bit though so maybe that's
> for a later date.
>
> <:-)
>
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