Hi Mario, thanks for the response. There is a little work around, that looks a bit strange. eg: I found some > [[book|??]]s. So the link will only cover the book text. I know that's > not pretty but it creates valid sentences.
Thanks, this is probably the best workaround. The question is interesting and valid, and it seems to be an easy change. > .. But due to its language specific nature, it isn't. Implementing it will > probably double the actual complexity of the plugin. Of course - I was not expecting there to be an easy way to build this into the plugin. I just wondered if there was an easy way to hack it. Having said that, I did have an idea. Not sure if it makes sense or not, but I'll put it out there: You could allow users to add an optional filter expression to be applied to the search term before it is used. For example take [[books|??]]. By default this will work as it currently does, but from a global config the user could add the filter trim:suffix[s]. This would be applied to [[books]] and then the result used as the search term. Although I think this would largely solve my problem, I'm not sure how useful it would be in general, but I thought I'd put it out there. On Mon, 28 Jun 2021 at 07:37, PMario <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sunday, June 27, 2021 at 10:58:41 PM UTC+2 Si wrote: > ... > >> I only just noticed your Uni-link Search feature! Very handy - I have >> been frequently writing things like [[really good idea|Really Good Ideas]], >> so this will save me a lot of time. >> > > There is a little work around, that looks a bit strange. eg: I found some > [[book|??]]s. So the link will only cover the book text. I know that's > not pretty but it creates valid sentences. > > The second workflow that works immediately is: *using aliases* eg: The > "Books" tiddler gets 2 of them "book" and "books" may be [[new books]] and > so on .... Use *[[book|?]] or [[books|?]]* problem solved. > > >> I have a question however: Is there any way to customise exactly how the >> search is applied? >> > > At the moment - no. ... The function is executed directly in javascript. > > >> I'm wondering if there is a way to use Uni-link search, but tweak it so >> it will ignore the final "s"? So [[books|??]] would automatically link to >> [[Book]]. >> > > The main problem is, that singular / plural rules depend on the language. > book - books in German is Buch - Bücher > So a hardcoded rule won't help the plugin. > > The second problem is, that it has to work in both directions. So imo a > link like [[books|??]] needs to search for "book" and "books" ... > [[book|??]] has to do the same thing. ... This will make the search > function 50% slower :/ > > It would be possible to implement "plural" / "singular" filter rules. But > they will be language specific. Some 3rd party libraries will be needed. So > there would be an additional plugin per language. > > UNI-LINK alias already uses macros instead of hardcoded links. ... but at > the moment link-search outputs a "link", so the built-in "backlinks" > handling works. If link-search would output a macro, a new "backlinks" > handling will be needed. :/ I know how to do it, but it would add extra > complexity. > > The re-link plugin is very popular and I try to keep uni-link compatible > with it. IMO the singular / plural links will definitely be out of the > scope, what re-link should handle. ... > > The question is interesting and valid, and it seems to be an easy change. > .. But due to its language specific nature, it isn't. Implementing it will > probably double the actual complexity of the plugin. > > So all in all using aliases instead of link-search will win in terms of > simplicity. .. And aliases don't need language specific plugins .. > > hope that helps > mario > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tiddlywiki/35_6ltCXEvs/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/a68737d8-c2ab-457d-91c8-d0942d696133n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/a68737d8-c2ab-457d-91c8-d0942d696133n%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/CAKKx7WYXyz8YA3JZeZt5%3DwRnPhh-JWeybSAZYGqRVmEWxvsxxA%40mail.gmail.com.
