Thank you, interesting, I hadn't seen this plugin previously. I've put a link to this thread in the addendum; but I will enlarge the section and put an explicit link to the plugin and include your code snippet too. Incidentally do you have a home page / social media profile so I can attribute you correctly (assuming you wanted that)?
Incidentally my blog posts are always like this - it is only when I've finished them I find half a dozen interesting new ways of approaching the problem :) Yours Gene On Friday, July 9, 2021 at 10:24:15 AM UTC+1 [email protected] wrote: > @Gene this plugin might be worth a look too: > > > https://github.com/linonetwo/tiddlywiki-plugins/tree/master/plugins/linonetwo/watch-fs > > "This plugin enables TiddlyWiki to watch the change in your disk, and if > you edit one of your tiddler using editor likes VSCode and save it on the > disk, the change will immediately reflected in the browser." > > On Wednesday, July 7, 2021 at 8:01:46 PM UTC+2 [email protected] > wrote: > >> @Saq - Ha yes, that's a neat way of getting around the need for nodemon, >> that I hadn't considered (mostly as I was ignorant of the API / focussed on >> writing to the folder). And you could call a bash script from Vim, or as >> @David Shaw points out an even tidier way would be to write it with VimL. >> >> If I have time for a project prior to the next release, I might give it a >> whirl. Thanks for the suggestion / education. >> >> Yours, >> Gene >> >> On Wednesday, July 7, 2021 at 10:22:19 AM UTC+1 David Shaw wrote: >> >>> Like Saq, I'm no Vim expert, but there's also the built in VimL language >>> that might be able to do this without having to invoke external scripts. >>> >>> And thanks for the original post - very interesting and possibly of use >>> to me. >>> >>> Many thanks, >>> David Shaw >>> >>> >>> On Wed, 7 Jul 2021, 09:50 Saq Imtiaz, <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Gene, >>>> >>>> For the specific use case that your video demonstrates, i.e. creating >>>> short new tiddlers rather than editing existing ones, have you considered >>>> the following workflow: >>>> >>>> - don't write your newly created tiddler files to the wiki directory. >>>> - instead have vim do a PUT request with cURL to the tiddlywiki to save >>>> the tiddler. >>>> >>>> API: >>>> https://tiddlywiki.com/#WebServer%20API%3A%20Put%20Tiddler:%5B%5BWebServer%20API%3A%20Put%20Tiddler%5D%5D >>>> >>>> Example: >>>> >>>> curl -X PUT -i 'http://192.168.0.12:8080/recipes/default/tiddlers/ >>>> NewTiddlerTitle' --data '{ >>>> "tags": "firstTag anotherTag", >>>> "creator": "gene", >>>> "modifier": "gene", >>>> "text": "The use of knowledge in society" >>>> }' -H "X-Requested-With: TiddlyWiki" >>>> >>>> I don't use VIM myself but as far as I know it can execute bash scripts >>>> so you could set one up to do the PUT with cURL. Alternatively there seem >>>> to be VIM plugins specifically for interacting with APIs. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Saq >>>> >>>> >>>> -- 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/3a284643-5702-4a2d-b43b-dc47960b5363n%40googlegroups.com.
