On Monday, January 25, 2016 at 9:03:59 AM UTC-5, PMario wrote:
> This can be a feature request with a github issue. ... but you need to be
> aware, that it will result in a backwards incompatible change. ... So it
> will be very hard to convince Jeremy.
>
> There have been some discussions as the rules where implemented.
> https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues?q=is%3Aissue+mdash+is%3Aclosed
>
Backward-compatibility *IS* a real consideration.
Still — I can't help wondering if it's much more of a consideration than my
syntactical hangup about --- having two different meanings. *ARE* there
that many existing TiddlyWikis out there with three-hyphen <hr/>s that
would suddenly become m-dashes? (I have no idea, but maybe folks will show
up testifying to how much of a pain it would be for their TWs.) The
worst-case scenario seems to be limited inconvenience, with the long-term
result that TiddlyWiki would have exclusive syntax for <hr/> (*----*) and
for — (*---*).
The upgrader might even be able to handle a replacement as simple as *^-{3}*
$ *=>* *----* as part of the upgrade process. (Of course, suggesting that
could be throwing wide the doors to all sorts of user-code cleanup Jeremy
wants no truck with.)
Food for thought, certainly. I definitely appreciated your insights in the
GitHub threads you linked to, Mario. (Thanks!)
I remember some of the early discussions about strikethrough, but I
wandered off for a long while and missed *--* and *---* being incorporated
(and parsed better in TW5 than they had been in TWC). I bring it up here,
in part, because I feel a little guilty for missing the chance to fight for
the oddball outlying use case of *---* on its own line back when the new
wikitext syntax was taking shape.
(Wasn't there a suggestion at one point to use some number of *=*
characters to build an <hr/>? Or am I misremembering that? It could be
that was suggested as a possible strikethrough syntax at some point.)
On Monday, January 25, 2016 at 10:48:27 AM UTC-5, Tobias Beer wrote:
>
> Hi Scott,
>
>
>> Am I the only one who runs across this issue? :)
>>
>
> Quite possibly. ;-)
>
Wouldn't be the first time! :-D
I realize I probably sound a tad crazy fretting over this one, and I very
much appreciate the feedback. I'd love to hear from others who've tripped
over the current syntax or whose TWs would take a hit from making such a
nitpicky change this late in the game.
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