I am in favor of stripping out leading and trailing whitespace in field Names during field creation and tiddler import.
Best, Joshua F On Wednesday, August 18, 2021 at 1:38:29 PM UTC-7 Soren Bjornstad wrote: > I'll preface this by saying this probably belongs in a GitHub issue, and > I'll be happy to create one over there if we want one. But wanted to get > people's thoughts first, and ASAP because now is our last chance to do this > without breaking backwards compatibility (once 5.2.0 is released, it would > be pretty hard to change). > > Would it make sense to *prohibit leading and trailing whitespace in field > names*, even though we now allow whitespace elsewhere? In the prerelease, > it's not possible to add such fields within the GUI, but you can import > tiddlers that contain such fields, or create them with an action or > $edit-text widget. Fields with leading or trailing whitespace are almost > impossible to distinguish within the GUI, since there is already whitespace > before and after the name when it's displayed. > > In addition, if we continue to prohibit leading and trailing whitespace, I > think we would be able to allow whitespace in between filter steps, which > is a common annoyance for new users (but maybe I'm missing something there). > > I can't think of any situation in which someone would *want* leading or > trailing whitespace in a field name, except maybe to integrate with another > system which allowed it for some reason – as evidenced by the fact that the > GUI doesn't even let you create such a field. At any rate, it seems much > more confusing than helpful. Unix filenames have suffered enormously > <https://dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html> from being > overly permissive in what characters they allow, including leading and > trailing whitespace; my instinct tells me this is likely to be a continuing > irritation. > > On the minus side, someone would of course have to implement checks to > prevent these fields from being added. > -- 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/ab3945f3-ec40-46e3-ac77-0bd4af00c977n%40googlegroups.com.
