Hi TT and Mat,
On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 6:29 PM TiddlyTweeter <[email protected]> wrote: > Ciao Mat, > * Great you are interested in this!* > > The ONLY concrete real comment I have is that, IN PRACTICE, is 92.5% of > the time, I want to track down ONE macro, and nothing more than that (to be > exposed to all macros is NOT really useful to me, in fact that forest loses > me!). > > *MY issue is only to find in WHICH Tiddler a specific Macro is in.* > Full stop. > > *Not sure if that helps? * > But it is a de-limited thing I need. Simply searching to find a (one) named* > \define XYZ(**...).* > > Not sure what others need. But that is all I need. > > > Mat: Maybe the macros should be findable via some search mechanism > > Right. I think it has been done? > Maybe Mohammad already has the code to do that? > A spy tool is show-macros from Utility plugins Example 1. Go to http://tiddlywiki.com 2. From Utility plugin (https://kookma.github.io/TW-Utility/) drag and drop Utility plugin (e.g https://kookma.github.io/TW-Utility/#%24%3A%2Fplugins%2Fkookma%2Futility) into http://tiddlywiki.com 3. Create a tiddler with below code <$list filter="[all[tiddlers+shadows]tag[$:/tags/Macro]]"> <h2><$link/></h2> <<show-macro>> </$list> Save and see all global macros with links to their tiddlers! Small issue: show-macro can confuse with macro with no \end > > > Thoughts > TT > > On Wednesday, 14 April 2021 at 14:13:40 UTC+2 Mat 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. >> >> 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. >> >> <:-) >> >>> -- > 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/e5d5dfca-832d-42b4-922f-f467737e96bfn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/e5d5dfca-832d-42b4-922f-f467737e96bfn%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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/CAAV1gMAZjeMuaVwnqU5rVu9cZ8wXvbT1nWoBLpX91BKAkhzx4A%40mail.gmail.com.
