Please consider the matter from the viewpoint of average users. > > In fact, slices would become the fundamental unit; an entire tiddler would > be a special case of a slice covering the entire tiddler. > > Slices are different in several important ways. To start, they are much lighter than a full tiddler. Each tiddler has about 60 characters overhead. More importantly, slices are RIGHT THERE while you edit. You don't have to click link, then click again to edit the tiddler, then close the tiddler, then check how it all works back in the main document. You don't have to wrack your head to to write a unique descriptive link for every semantic unit. You get to see the actual text and not a widget. You don't have to worry that changing a tiddler title will break a dependent document.
Finally, in many case, the article, documents, correspondence etc. IS the "semantic" unit that you want. The tiddler is complete, but you just want to to add a bookmark or anchor into the text, or quickly find a particular section, without having to explode the document into a dozen scatter-shot pieces. It's unnatural to take a piece of correspondence, for instance, and break it into little pieces just so you can quickly access some particular piece in the future. Most people would not do that with their real-life filing, and it feels strange to do it inside of an electronic document. >From a different engineering perspective, each tiddler adds overhead to a non-indexed system where every byte represents a performance decrease. It's clear that lots of people enjoyed the slice approach in the TWC, and that some are going to great lengths to come up with approaches that bring it back. Mark -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/130bc737-9b18-4e4a-97f1-e27cd616fcfa%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
