In terms of use cases, in MediaWiki similar functionality is called template substitution <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Substitution>, and they've listed some applications at Wikipedia.
On Saturday, May 15, 2021 at 4:51:33 AM UTC-5 Anjar wrote: > Another use case was just posted (on how to combine the text from several > tiddlers into a single tiddler so that the original tiddlers can be > deleted): https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/xTCzMIj0uqs Good > solutions were suggested, but it would also be very simple to just write > <<<insertTiddlerText "..somefilter...">>> and have it replaced with the > text of those tiddlers or <<insertTiddlerText "..somefilter...">> if one > wants to keep transcluding > > Best, > Anders > > fredag 14. mai 2021 kl. 16:31:33 UTC+2 skrev PMario: > >> On Friday, May 14, 2021 at 12:04:01 PM UTC+2 Anjar wrote: >> >> - You are guaranteed that the output will not change. In the permalink >>> case, I think, the example would be to replace <<hardlink "aTitle">> with >>> something like <$button><$list >>> filter="[created[..aTitle!!created..]]"><$action-navigate >>> $to=<<currentTiddler>> /></$list>aTitle</$button> where ..aTitle!!created.. >>> is not a reference but the actual value >>> >>> Thoughts? >>> >> >> I think in general this is a sensible idea. ... But I also think it's >> "over-engineering" ... >> >> If exporting "connected" tiddler is a problem, we may need to improve the >> "export" mechanisms. Which imo would be the right place to tackle this >> specific problem. >> >> just a thought. >> mario >> >> >> -- 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 tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/e2c27aea-4433-4d99-b657-377d534fef59n%40googlegroups.com.
