Hi Hegart Thanks for explaining that. Doesn't having the core as a plugin contradict > the very nature of a plugin, which you describe in the official docs as > *"Plugins > are used to distribute optional, custom components for TiddlyWiki > <http://tiddlywiki.com/#TiddlyWiki>"*, (emphasis mine). I would have > thought that the core itself is not optional, thus it shouldn't be > described as a plugin. It seems confusing to me. >
Perhaps it should say "plugins can be used to distribute optional, custom components" to make it clearer that not all plugins are for that purpose. Plugins are a general purpose mechanism for packing multiple tiddlers into the same container tiddler. They are used for a number of different purposes around the system, but their behaviour is always the same: when activated, their payload tiddlers become visible as shadow tiddlers. Best wishes Jeremy. > > Kind regards, > > Hegart. > > > On Monday, 28 September 2015 11:15:20 UTC+13, Jeremy Ruston wrote: >> >> 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] >> > -- 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/CAPKKYJabqRU1%3DNJmsPVvy--tkK1FJGn7ZXdE4FdzdmY-yFzEww%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
