Hi Mike

On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Mike <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yes, you can absolutely repost the grammar on tw.com; I'd be honoured to
> have contributed even a small amount!
>

Great, I've transcribed the grammar here:

https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/commit/10891081cac8a05c8917670aac89199041259035

I'd like to credit you by name, how would you like to be known?


> Sad to say, I hadn't seen the TiddlerFilters tiddler. I thought I'd looked
> through every tiddler on tiddlywiki.com, but I guess not. It's exactly
> what I would have been looking for!
>

The plan is to add some kind of hierarchical table of contents that
hopefully will at least provide another route for discovery.

Honestly, I think it's a matter of terminology. This may be because I'm new
> to TW, but I was looking all over for "search" capabilities. Not finding
> them wasn't helped by the bits about "better searching" in the future
> roadmap; I assumed it was called "search" and just wasn't implemented, yet.
>

That's helpful.

What I would recommend is creating a help tiddler called Searching and have
> it say something like "In TW the word used for searching is *filtering*.
> Imagine seeing a list of all your tiddlers, then only displaying those
> which match a certain filter. The TiddlerFilters tiddler better describes
> the filter syntax. At the moment full filter syntax is not used by the
> sidebar, but it is used by <$list>, etc. The sidebar will support it in the
> future."
>

I've added something along those lines:

https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/commit/f68d48fcd3c257925406a6c2d33b282bf75fedab


> Sorry for my confusion when the TiddlerFilters actually answers 90% of the
> questions I had! At least I learned something by digging through source. :)
>

Indeed, it's also been interesting for me to see how explain them!

Many thanks,

Jeremy



>
> -Mike
>
>
> On Friday, February 7, 2014 5:09:39 AM UTC-5, Jeremy Ruston wrote:
>
>> Hi Mike
>>
>> Thanks for taking the trouble to transcribe the syntax, that's amazingly
>> useful. If I may, I'd like to copy it to tiddlywiki.com.
>>
>> You mentioned not finding any documentation on the filter syntax - I
>> assume you saw the tiddler TiddlerFilters that tersely covers most of the
>> syntax? It's been on my todo list for a while to update the documentation,
>> and your work will be very helpful.
>>
>> I've added a "filter" tab to advanced search:
>>
>> https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/commit/
>> 2758e586bddd220be27e861e0a3b0afac9966f5f
>>
>> As discussed on the last hangout, the plan is also to support saving
>> search strings to a dropdown so that they can be easily repeated later.
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> Jeremy
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 8:18 AM, Alberto Molina <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> It's a great trick! I tried your example and it works, even if I don't
>>> know how.
>>>
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