@JWHoneycutt Although it behaves the same as other fields within
TiddlyWiki, it does seem the the contents of the "text" field is *stored
*differently
to other fields (see my previous post).
My question is more about whether this matters when copying content from
the text of a tiddler into a different field. I realize now that I have
made the title of this thread is too general, so at some point I will
probably make another post that gets more to the point.
On Sunday, 16 May 2021 at 00:35:53 UTC+1 JWHoneycutt wrote:
> "Does the "text" field store data differently to other fields?"
>
> I am not an expert, but think I know the answer to your question, and
> would love to be corrected.
>
> Text fields are handled the "same" as any other field. That said, the
> tiddlywiki core or your overriding viewtemplate tiddlers can change the
> display behavior.
> I would use this to find these tiddlers:
>
> <$list filter="[tag[$:/tags/ViewTemplate]]" >
>
> </$list>
>
> JWHoneycutt
> On Saturday, May 15, 2021 at 11:11:39 AM UTC-4 si wrote:
>
>> 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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