Following some advice I read elsewhere (apologies to whomever came up with this, I cannot attribute you properly, as I've been reading quite widely since starting to use TW), I use the following nomenclature, which keeps all my custom system tiddlers together at the top of the System list, where they are easier to find.
- $:/_Macros/ - $:/_Styles/ I don't know if this is common practice, or just some good advice I came across early on in my TW learning curve, but it works for me. I'd do the same with $:/_Plugins/ if I knew how to, but I've only installed a single plugin so far, and that automatically went to $:/plugins/inmysocks/TiddlerTool by default, which I guess is accurate for a plugin I didn't create myself. No doubt eventually I'll have some $:/plugins/tobibeer/ stuff in there as well. ;-) Hegart. On Saturday, 16 January 2016 14:28:25 UTC+13, Scott Simmons (Secret-HQ) wrote: > > I appreciate Jeremy including some guidance on nomenclature > <http://tiddlywiki.com/#Adopt%20a%20Titles%20Policy:%5B%5BAdopt%20a%20Titles%20Policy%5D%5D%20%5B%5BNaming%20of%20System%20Tiddlers%5D%5D> > > in the main TiddlyWiki documentation. Given the changes to TW5 over the > last couple of years, though, I'm curious how uers are actually naming > their tiddlers — in particular, user-created system tiddlers. > > I've been running counter to convention by naming macros and plugins > $:/Secret-HQ/macros/mymacro and $:/Secret-HQ/plugins/myplugin. Other > typical naming for me includes $:/Secret-HQ/ui/sidebar/mysidebartab and > $:/Secret-HQ/stylesheet/thisstyle. (I'd rather switch to /css but I keep > using /stylesheet because of $:/tags/Stylesheet.) > > This keeps my self-created system tiddlers together in alphabetical > listings, but since I tag them all $:/tags/Secret-HQ, I can keep track of > them with <<list-links>> macros easily enough. > > It's nonstandard, though, and it will eventually cause problems if I share > any of my content. So I should probably be naming this way, instead: > > - $:/macros/Secret-HQ/mymacro > - $:/plugins/Secret-HQ/myplugin > - $:/stylesheets/Secret-HQ/thisstyle > - $:/ui/Secret-HQ/sidebar/mysidebartab > - $:/tags/Secret-HQ > > Am I right in thinking these names are more standardized and less likely > to cause conflicts/confusion if the wind up in someone else's TiddlyWiki > somehow? > > — > > As a follow-up question: What's up with > > - $:/tags/Macro > - $:/tags/ControlPanel > - $:/tags/PageControl > - $:/tags/Stylesheet > > ... and the like? > > I've reconciled myself to their camelcase, but what was the (maybe purely > historical now?) logic behind using these names rather than: > > - $:/Macro > - $:/ControlPanel > - $:/PageControl > - $:/Stylesheet > > ... ? > > Identifying tags *AS* tags in their name seems a little clunky and > counterintuitive to me — which could just be me having trouble wrapping my > brain around the faux-tree naming structure. Emerson warned that "a > foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," but I can't help > thinking it would be more elegant to have $:/Macro/Secret-HQ/mymacro tagged > $:/Macro and $:/User/Secret-HQ. > > Maybe that itsn't the best way to go about it, but I *DO* feel TiddlyWiki > could benefit from tighter consistency of naming conventions, especially > with it being so community- and contributor-oriented. My own nonstandard > naming developed out of learning to create different kinds of tiddlers one > at a time and not seeing a consistent pattern among the names. (And I > suspect others have faced the same issue, as I stil run across plugins > named $:/user/plugin/aplugin rather than $:/plugin/user/aplugin.) > > Is development a little too far down the line to be raising this sort of > nitpick? Or is TiddlyWiki5 still fluid enough to benefit from these kinds > of questions? > -- 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 tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/7f00f5f1-dcf8-411d-97fe-9a38f1e7806e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
