Thank you, your explanation it makes it very clear what's going on. Whoops :D!
> Either way, it's going to be "more typing" (but only a little). Still, its less typing than the full `<$macrocall ...>` widget syntax. In this case, I will be using the `<$macrocall ...>` syntax because I want to create a template tiddler using `tm-new-tiddler`. This template contains wikitext which field-transcludes a URL field. However, if I want to create a generic macro for links where I might want to specify the URL scheme, I know to watch out for my colons this time :D! On Monday, September 20, 2021 at 8:35:52 AM UTC-4 Eric Shulman wrote: > On Monday, September 20, 2021 at 12:35:18 AM UTC-7 [email protected] > wrote: > >> I can make the first method work by putting the URL in quotes, but I >> would like to avoid that in general because it's more typing :): >> `<<todoLink "http://foo.org"; bar>>`. Why are the quotes required? I >> thought macro expansion substituted text without treating the macro inputs >> as WikiText? >> > > The `<<macroname param param param>>` syntax, in addition to handling > *unnamed* parameters, also recognizes *named* parameters, using > `name:value`. > Thus, a value like `http://foo.org` is parsed as a parameter named > "http", with a value of "//foo.org". By enclosing it in quotes, it > avoids the named parameter parsing and passes it into the macro as a single > parameter value > > So... you can use the quotes to bypass the parameter name parsing: > `<<todoLink "http://foo.org"; bar>>` > or, you can add a parameter *name*, like this: `<<todoLink url: > http://foo.org bar>>`. > > Either way, it's going to be "more typing" (but only a little). Still, > its less typing than the full `<$macrocall ...>` widget syntax. > > -e > -- 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/e26ed45a-4043-4fb1-8f15-36fb06780been%40googlegroups.com.
