Hi Jim > TW will alllow you to create both a Foo tiddler and a foo tiddler, but if you're running under node on Windows, whichever one is saved last will be the sole contents of the single foo.tid file.
Ouch. I'm afraid I'd forgotten that aspect of Windows. I think it's a bug that needs to be fixed, I'd be grateful if you could create an issue on GitHub. Many thanks, Jeremy. On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 10:47 PM, Jim Lehmer <[email protected]> wrote: > TW will alllow you to create both a *Foo *tiddler and a *foo *tiddler, > but if you're running under node on Windows, whichever one is saved last > will be the sole contents of the single *foo.tid *file. I am sure it has > been discussed before but it bit me today and shouldn't have, because I am > ancient and have seen this same behavior in different software in the hoary > past (like how Java used to mishandle class name to file name mapping back > in the day). > > Question: Should TW even allow this behavior in the first place, i.e., if > you create a tiddler *Foo *and then try and create a second tiddler *Foo*, > you will get a popup asking if you want to overwrite *Foo*. However, if > you create *Foo *and then create *foo*, it will allow that, and silently > overwrite the underlying *Foo.tid *file. This seems very unfriendly, and > would likely cause confusion for non-technical users (although would they > be running node? :) > > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- 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/d/optout.
