Greeaaat. Am Freitag, 24. Januar 2014 21:42:43 UTC+1 schrieb Jeremy Ruston: > > 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]<javascript:> > > 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] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> >> . >> 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] <javascript:> >
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