Awesome. That's one of my favourite metafeatures of TiddlyWiki -- the clear and careful thinking that goes into selecting features :)
;Daniel On 21 February 2014 19:39, Jeremy Ruston <[email protected]> wrote: > My plan is indeed to implement a very similar feature (listed in the > roadmap on tiddlywiki.com as "Aliases"). > > The idea is indeed that certain operations will be capable of > dereferencing special alias tiddlers, which would end up resolving to a > different tiddler. There would be an option on the transclude widget to > select whether or not to dereference aliases (that would be necessary to > allow us to edit aliases themselves). > > Quite early on I discarded the idea of maintaining a separate list of > aliases attached the each tiddler. The problem there is that (a) one has to > modify a tiddler in order to give it an alias, and (b) that looking for a > tiddler would require us to look separately through the aggregated alias > lists, which would also be expensive to maintain. > > Best wishes > > Jeremy > > > > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 2:16 AM, Daniel Baird <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> I prefer redirection to just having a bunch of explicit aliases. >> >> I like the infinitely-nestable idea but it might be difficult to >> implement. An alternative might be that if you make a tiddler into a >> redirect tiddler, part of the process of saving that goes and finds other >> tiddlers that pointed at this one, and rewrites them to point to the new >> destination directly. >> >> That way redirection is always one step (but if you saved the wrong >> redirection, you'd have to go back and update all the other redirections >> etc, which would suck). >> >> I'd rather have the nesting, but getting that might require some crazy >> implementation hoop jumping. >> >> >> >> On 21 February 2014 12:03, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Is it remotely possible to add internal handling of something like >>> symbolic link tiddlers such that a link tiddler, when referenced in any >>> capacity (link, transclusion template, etc.) is seamlessly dereferenced to >>> its target first? Links should be nestable, so if the target of a link is >>> also a link it dereferences again, etc. Though then there would have to be >>> a check for cycles ... hmm. >>> >>> This would sidestep the renaming / refactoring that is listed in the >>> future plans. If you want your tiddler to have a new name you just create a >>> new tiddler with that name and all the properties you want it to have, then >>> turn the original into a "symlink" tiddler. >>> >>> More importantly it would allow for circumstances where a tiddler has >>> more than one correct name. E.g. suppose you are keeping a TW of plants and >>> each tiddler is titled with its proper latin name, but you still want to be >>> able to [[link]] to it by its common name. Elegantly, it would also handle >>> the case where a tiddler has a whole list of correct names, for which I >>> can't come up with a good example! >>> >>> I'm happy to try implementing something like this if you can point me in >>> the right direction. >>> >>> Thoughts? >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Daniel Baird >> retro objoke: Chuck Norris had a problem so he decided to use regular >> expressions. Now, every problem in the world is solved. >> >> -- >> 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. > -- Daniel Baird retro objoke: Chuck Norris had a problem so he decided to use regular expressions. Now, every problem in the world is solved. -- 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.
