Hi Tones, Good points! Like you said, I believe the base 0 or 1 should be set by the user! The PR has been recently merged and It is good to write your feedback there.
Best wishes Mohammad On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 8:10 AM TW Tones <[email protected]> wrote: > Mohammad, > > I have long wanted this mechaisium my self. There are ways to emulate it, > but a direct index variable is ideal. > > I wonder if the feature can be supported by the existing caching since > this will have many possible uses and does become important when lists get > longer. A zero OR one based index would also be helpful to avoid adding one > every time in many cases. > > There are a whole class of situations when knowing the position is useful, > the set index parameter can be used to access the nth item in a list, so > you could use one list to map to another eg days of the week, 1, mon, > monday etc... > > Also when generating a list then being able to enter a range of start and > end values etc... > > Regards > Tones > > > On Sunday, 25 April 2021 at 01:22:40 UTC+10 Mohammad wrote: > >> You may now, the $list widget, is the most common widget you use in >> Tiddlywiki! It is everywhere like a nice dog! >> >> The $list widget in 5.1.24 has got a new attribute index! in which the >> numeric index of each listed tiddler is stored It can produce very nice >> results like below >> >> >> <$list filter="[tag[About]sort[title]]" index="index"> >> <div> >> <<index>>: ''<$text text=<<currentTiddler>>/>'' (is first: <<index-first>>, >> is last: <<index-last>>) >> </div> >> </$list> >> >> >> >> Displays as: >> >> 0: Acknowledgements (is first: yes, is last: no) >> 1: Contributors (is first: no, is last: no) >> 2: History of TiddlyWiki (is first: no, is last: no) >> 3: License (is first: no, is last: no) >> 4: Releases (is first: no, is last: no) >> 5: RoadMap (is first: no, is last: yes) >> >> Ah this is lovely! >> >> >> >> >> Best wishes >> Mohammad >> > -- > 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/bc73b33f-45b4-493a-a07c-0fa7774fc622n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/bc73b33f-45b4-493a-a07c-0fa7774fc622n%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/CAAV1gMDeF-nUka5WTzWSn9yLjcZ-j-TRMse%2BhKB85t%2BSjfBfWA%40mail.gmail.com.
