LOL it might be that I forgot the reload the document when I first
installed ImportTiddlersPlugin, even though that was many days ago
when I did that.

*blush*

> You can *interactively* resize the listbox using the +, -, and =
> command links at the upper right of the listbox.  +/- step the list
> size by 1 one (increase or decrease).  = toggles between
> 'maximum' (show ALL lines), and current 'listsize' value.

Okay... don't you think a good default is better than the ability to
customize?

LOL I made the mistake of 'maximizing' and then 'shrinking' the list,
after which i could no longer 'restore' it to its previous value, but
now my list was 400 lines long :P. A document reload fixed it.

> The initial listsize is coded into the plugin:
>    config.macros.importTiddlers.listsize = 10
> You can change this by adding a suitable ImportTiddlersPluginConfig
> (or zzConfig) tiddler, tagged with systemConfig, containing the line
> above, adjusted for the desired number of lines.

Okay cool.

> The filter option uses the TW core paramifier syntax (URL 'hash'
> params), and supports any combination of:
>    open:TiddlerName (or just "TiddlerName")
>    story:StoryName
>    tag:tagvalue
>    search:searchtext
>
> Currently, the handling for "search:text" filters performs a simple
> 'partial text match' against the tiddler body text only.  If I rewrite
> this code to invoke the TW core search handler instead, it will
> automatically be able to use the core's support for searching with
> javascript regular expression (text pattern) syntax.
>
> In addition, if you have TiddlyTools' SearchOptionsPlugin installed,
> you could also search for text matches within a tiddler's titles, tags
> and/or custom fields.

The most standard usecase and the feature any new user will expect is
for the filter field to do an incremental filtering based on the list-
as-displayed. That is, when you type in "import" it does a case-
insensitive search on all listings that have "import" in the title. In
the "by title" view this seems the most logical choice. In the "by
tag" view this would make it impossible to search on tags as only the
tag itself (e.g. ImportExportPackage) would get displayed, but you
could opt to display only the matching tags and the entire list of
tiddlers belonging to that tag, while still remaining in the "by tag"
view.

It's great to have all those filter options but a new user is not
going to know how the hell it works. It's not self-explanatory and it
isn't consistent with the regular wiki search functionality. It would
seem very odd that you cannot implement an incremental search based on
the very text that is displayed in the list. And really, why would you
want to do in-body searches?

Okay, but thanks a lot for explaining it to me. I will have to find
out what this "paramifier" syntax is and where it surfaces ;-).

Kudos, Xen

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