Hi Charlie,

Just for curiosity, is there any reason to use ZIP instead of JSON when you
share solutions?

Best wishes
Mohammad


On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 8:10 PM Charlie Veniot <[email protected]> wrote:

> Okay, here's a very rough prototype.
>
> You'll find in the attached zip two tiddlers:
>
>
>    - Add Tiddler A Content
>       - This is the meat of it all
>       - This specifies the actions for the button
>       - TiddlyWiki automagically takes care of creating the button for
>       the actions (the spark for the magic is the "$:/tags/EditorToolbar")
>    - Add Tiddler A Content Image
>       - Meant to be the icon in the Edit toolbar
>       - Just text at the moment, which creates an obnoxiously big button
>       - Good enough for testing purposes
>       - We can work on a shorter word, or setting up an actual icon, later
>
>
> You supply your own "Tiddler A" for testing purposes, putting whatever
> text in it.
>
> Then create some new test tiddlers, trying out that button to see what
> happens.
>
>
>
>
> On Monday, May 3, 2021 at 12:00:01 PM UTC-3 Charlie Veniot wrote:
>
>> Ah, then.   I have a solution (I think) festering, percolating possibly
>> burning if you are smelling any burnt toast ...
>>
>> On Monday, May 3, 2021 at 11:54:03 AM UTC-3 David Gifford wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Charlie,
>>>
>>> Yes, you have described well what I am trying to do.
>>>
>>> No, I don't need an "Internet archive" style list of what the content
>>> used to be. The button will stamp a reference to the chapter I am currently
>>> reading (eg, [[Guns, Germs and Steel (Diamond) ch 4]]) into a note tiddler,
>>> along with other text immediately preceding and following. When I start
>>> reading a new chapter I will update the "Current chapter" tiddler. So the
>>> content is not important enough to warrant a log of previous content.
>>>
>>> Blessings.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 9:45 AM Charlie Veniot <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> G'day David,
>>>>
>>>> RE: #3:  I'm going to throw a curve-ball at you and hope I don't bean
>>>> you in the process ...
>>>>
>>>> By the time I hit the submit button, I'm thinking there will already be
>>>> a few replies.
>>>>
>>>> Please let me know if I've got this right:  for any tiddler you might
>>>> be editing, you'd like a button that copies and pastes the actual content
>>>> of that moment of the tiddler "Current chapter" into the tiddler you are
>>>> editing.  i.e. a historical snapshot of "Current chapter" at that very
>>>> moment in time.  (adorning that content with prefix, suffix, and however
>>>> else, that's secondary problem/solution to this primary problem/solution
>>>> need.)
>>>>
>>>> When we first talked about this stuff, you wanted the content of
>>>> "Current chapter" in a field for new tiddlers.  Do I understand correctly
>>>> that you now want it instead in the text body of the new tiddler, wherever
>>>> your cursor is sitting?
>>>>
>>>> Now the curve-ball. Would it be of any value to have dated/historical
>>>> snapshots of "Current chapter" as distinct tiddlers which can be
>>>> individually transcluded in any number of new tiddlers?
>>>>
>>>> That would only be of value if you would ever like to see all of the
>>>> "Current chapter" versions over a span of time and/or if any one version
>>>> would actually ever be embedded/included/transcluded in more than one
>>>> tiddler.  Otherwise, better to have each snapshot existing where you need
>>>> it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Monday, May 3, 2021 at 9:38:54 AM UTC-3 David Gifford wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi everyone
>>>>>
>>>>> Yesterday I worked on a project, and Saq, Soren, Charlie and Mohammad
>>>>> helped me. Thank you!
>>>>>
>>>>> Now I only have three remaining problems, and I was hoping you all
>>>>> might help me.
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. The comptext plugin does not autocomplete links in custom fields,
>>>>> only in the text field. Is there a way to configure it to autocomplete in 
>>>>> a
>>>>> specific custom field? I only need it to autocomplete in one...
>>>>>
>>>>> 2. Adding a link to a missing tiddler in a custom field does not add
>>>>> the missing link to the missing tab. Is there a way to see all the missing
>>>>> links in custom field x from all tiddlers?
>>>>>
>>>>> 3. Yesterday Charlie showed me how to grab the text of a specific
>>>>> tiddler and insert it into the new tiddler button so it would get added to
>>>>> a custom field of the new tiddler. The key component was
>>>>> customfieldname={{{ [[Current chapter]get[text]] }}}. I tried to use that
>>>>> in an editortoolbar button with no success. How could I grab the text of
>>>>> [[Current chapter]] and have the prefix of the following snippet paste it
>>>>> into tiddlers? (as text, not as {{Current chapter}}, because I don't want
>>>>> what is pasted to change when I change the text of Current chapter later 
>>>>> on)
>>>>>
>>>>> <$action-sendmessage
>>>>>     $message="tm-edit-text-operation"
>>>>>     $param="wrap-selection"
>>>>>     prefix=""""""
>>>>>     suffix=""""""
>>>>> />
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks to any help on any of these. World domination is imminent.
>>>>> Blessings, Dave
>>>>>
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