That was enormously helpful, *thank you! *As I stare at this a bit more, I think I'm coming to some solid conclusions, but I could also very well just be getting myself mixed up in a huge knot. Is the following explanation to myself correct?
*The following is a beginner's attempt to explain what filters are and how filters work, and may not be even remotely correct. * Consider the list macro. To use the list macro with a filter, enter <<list filter ...>> This calls the list macro and tells it that it will be generating a list from the next bit of info which tells the list macro what to search for and list. That next bit of info can be pretty long, but must be encased quotation marks. The filter itself is inside square brackets. <<list filter "[filtername[filterparameter]]">> The first word in there is called the filter (not to be confused with the "filter" word which came after the "list" macro). There are 3 built in filters in Tiddlywiki: Field, Tag, and Tiddler. Using, for example, the tag filter will generate a list of tiddlers based on the tags specified. Plugins can add more filters in addition to these 3, as well as expanding the filtering abilities. MatchTagsPlugin does both. It expands the exhaustiveness and specificity you can achieve using the tags filter (everywhere, including other plugins!), as well as a new macro which functions similarly to <<list filter [tag[parameter]]>>, but does more stuff too.(not clear on exactly what yet). Yakov Litvin's ExtraFiltersPlugin <http://yakovl.bplaced.net/TW/ExtraFilters.html#ExtraFiltersPluginInfo>adds 6 new filters; 2 filtering in (adding), and 4 filtering out (excluding), as he explains it. They are, respectively: [all[parameter]] [from[parameter]] [and[parameter]] [not[parameter]] [unclassified[parameter]] [hasPart[parameter]] Jon Robson's ExtraFiltersPlugin<http://filters.tiddlyspace.com/#ExtraFiltersPlugin>adds what he counts as 13 new filters, but which my definition here counts as 8. (I would only count the "is" filter as one). He groups them differently than Yakov, so I'm not quite sure how they compare. Finally, there are actually 2 secondary additional core filters of a different kind than the ones above. They are the [sort]field]] filter, and the [limit[number]] filter, and they merely delimit how the main filter displays. Besides the 6 mentioned above, Yakov Litvin's ExtraFiltersPlugin <http://yakovl.bplaced.net/TW/ExtraFilters.html#ExtraFiltersPluginInfo> includes 2 sort filters as well. I'm still not sure how Filtr <http://filtr.tiddlyspace.com/> ListFiltr<http://listfiltr.tiddlyspace.com/#Home> TagFiltr <http://tagfiltr.tiddlyspace.com/> GetPlugin<http://get.tiddlyspace.com/#GettingStarted> and ForEachTiddler<http://tiddlywiki.abego-software.de/#ForEachTiddlerPlugin> relate to these in terms of functionality, overlap, redundancy, or synergy. Cheers! -Leo -- 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.
