Hi Hegart The missing piece is that there is a plugin called $:/core that contains the main core code of TiddlyWiki. It is always present, and it is the source of the shadow tiddlers you are seeing. You can see it listed in the "Plugins" tab of the control panel.
Best wishes Jeremy. On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 10:50 PM, Hegart Dmishiv <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been looking back over ShadowTiddlers > <http://tiddlywiki.com/#ShadowTiddlers> again in the official TW5 docs, > trying to get a handle on all of this. It says *"ShadowTiddlers > <http://tiddlywiki.com/#ShadowTiddlers> are tiddlers that are loaded from > within Plugins <http://tiddlywiki.com/#Plugins>."* Looking at the Plugins > tiddler in the docs, I see a list of available plugins. From the > description of *"Plugins are used to distribute optional, custom > components for TiddlyWiki <http://tiddlywiki.com/#TiddlyWiki>."* I assume > I have to install a plugin myself for it to work, right? A bit like the > extensions <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Extensions> for > MediaWiki. As far as I know, I haven't installed any plugins for TW5. Haha, > I wouldn't even know how to yet! So where do these Shadow Tiddlers come > from, from which plugins, if I haven't installed any plugins yet? > > I see a huge list of *"current shadow tiddlers"* listed on the > ShadowTiddlers tiddler in the official docs. At first I assumed that these > are only the shadow tiddlers for plugins which are installed in the TW wiki > instance at tiddlywiki.com, but then I copied the <$list> filter from the > code on that page, into a new tiddler in my own instance of TW5 and got the > same results (or near enough, a huge long list) as what I saw on > tiddlywiki.com. > > So now I'm even more confused: > > 1. The docs say that shadow tiddlers come from plugins. > 2. I haven't installed any plugins. > 3. I have shadow tiddlers anyway. > > Can anyone explain this to me better, and maybe we can get the official > docs updated, or maybe there needs to be a "TiddlyWiki for Dummies" book. I > saw *@Eric*'s IndieGoGo page > <https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/inside-tiddlywiki-the-missing-manual#/story>, > but that campaign had closed long before I had even heard about TiddlyWiki. > Not that I could have afforded to contribute much, anyway, sorry. > > -- > 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. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/be9563c7-45ad-472e-9ad4-0f275c59b71e%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/be9563c7-45ad-472e-9ad4-0f275c59b71e%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/CAPKKYJb1aeQV7dxW3GKPB3%3DscwVw_G2seKzCrPq6qAx%3DrPbuAg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
