Sorry to bump this but I did a little test and looked at the source to see
how the data was stored.
I create a tiddler like this:
[image: tiddler.png]
Then I used action-setfield to move the text to a field called "test". When
I looked at the source I saw this:
[image: source-div.png]
So it looks to my non-technical eyes that "text" is stored in the <pre>
element, and other fields within the <div> tag. However it also seems that
all the information was retained.
Can anyone with knowledge of TiddlyWiki internals confirm that this safe to
do, or are there instances where I could lose data?
On Friday, 14 May 2021 at 20:26:51 UTC+1 si wrote:
> Yep this is what I had initially decided, however I have a slightly
> idiosyncratic use case which means that it will be easier for me to use
> fields.
>
> Hence why I just wanted to know if I will potentially lose any data by
> going down this route.
> On Friday, 14 May 2021 at 20:10:00 UTC+1 Mohammad wrote:
>
>> I would recommend using a JSON tiddler!
>> If you store text of tidA then you can have tidA-History to keep these!
>>
>> Best wishes
>> Mohammad
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 11:34 PM si <matthew...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I've create a button that will move the contents of the "text" field of
>>> one tiddler into a different field ("text-history") of another tiddler.
>>>
>>> I anticipate in the future doing this with text fields that contain a
>>> lot of content, including new lines, html tables, macro definitions etc.
>>> Since fields appear on only one line I'm wondering if any formatting
>>> information could be lost during this process?
>>>
>>> I've done a test that involves new lines, and it seems that this data is
>>> retained, but I'm just wondering if there is something that I might not be
>>> anticipating, or will I always be able to transfer text back and forth
>>> without losing anything?
>>>
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