Hello Danielo and Stephan, thanks for the hints. From that I learnt that I should have a look at tw5magick more often ;-)
The example for a global macro (w/ limitations) was very interesting and I had to recognize that I have still not fully anticipated the mindset of TW5. And the JavaScript macro is what I need. Saving and reloading is not really a drawback anymore, since now reloading can yield the very same tiddlers again. Thanks a lot Michael Am Samstag, 25. Januar 2014 02:30:15 UTC+1 schrieb Danielo Rodríguez: > > For me the JavaScript version of the macros is working globally. > You can find an example at : > > http://tw5magick.tiddlyspot.com/ > > El viernes, 24 de enero de 2014 19:44:21 UTC+1, Michael Herrmann escribió: >> >> 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.
