Hello, In general I was delighted to see that in TW5 we have some kind of macros. Unfortunately the scope of macros is mainly the current tiddler. That means if I have a universally usable macro I have to copy and paste it to every tiddler where I want to use it. For me this is almost no benefit. (Maybe I do not recognize some important aspect that leverages this characteristics.)
When I read the documentation tiddler I happily misunderstood the last part of the sentence: Macros are available to the tiddler that defines them, plus any tiddlers that it transcludes. At first glance that sounded to me as if I could prepare a tiddler with all my macros and only transclude that tiddler wherever I like use one of those macros. Unfortunately this was a misunderstanding and the use is just the other way round :-( I.e. if I have a tiddler with some macro and I transclude another tiddler, then the macro is available in this transclusion. Sounds interesting, but currently no use case comes to my mind. I know that there is one tiddler that exports it's macros globally: $:/core/ui/pageMacros. I see these drawbacks: (1) The choice between "not available elsewhere" and "available everywhere" is a too big step. I would prefer a more fine grain granularity. (2) This system tiddler is under risk to be overwritten when upgrading TW5. So, my question is: wouldn't it be very useful to widen the scope of macros somehow? Perhaps by some kind of _import_ mechanism? regards Michael -- 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
