Hi Michael Yes, global macros are planned, but not implemented yet. I've added a note the roadmap for 5.0.7 to clarify:
https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/commit/f9b5d75446c6f2a99e835ad61e330f583c4a6cb3 Best wishes Jeremy On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 6:44 PM, Michael Herrmann <[email protected]>wrote: > 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. > -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:[email protected] -- 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.
