Edge cases???? I can see that you might be able to do a lot with the wiki-text macros, but ... for anything complex they get pretty *unreadable pretty quickly! And it's not like they use a language you might use somewhere else. IMO, more, not less, use should be made of JS macros.
I'm just about to rework the lexer/parser you helped me with a few years ago into TW5 - but it'll stay in JS. I hope you'll be on standby once again :-) Cheers, Andrew *I mean that in a nice way On Monday, 6 March 2017 06:50:43 UTC+11, PMario wrote: > > On Sunday, March 5, 2017 at 1:55:08 AM UTC+1, Matt Groth wrote: > >> I regularly backup my wiki so I'd be interested to know if this is at all >> hackable. >> > > TW sanitizes javascript within normal tiddlers, for security reasons. > > >> I'm also somewhat confused about why we have javascript macros then, and >> what the difference is there. >> > > Standard macros are defined with \define ... \end .. Those macros are > "text substitutions". Everything between the "define - end" is wikitext, > which is powerful but still limited, compared to javascript. > > javascript macros can use all the possibilities of javascript, but are > still limited to return text. So they work exactly the same way as > wiki-text macros. ... macros are not able to "refresh" the rendered output, > like widgets. Therefore they are simpler to use and define but you still > have to use a developer setting. > > >> Though at this point I should probably study the code a lot more so I >> know what I'm talking about. I'll be back! >> > > The js-macros have been introduced, because we needed them for some edge > cases. But it turns out, that tw wikitext is very powerful, so they are > only used for some core stuff. > > hope that helps > mario > -- 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/66962429-0bc6-4768-aff3-eaf3b1ef52df%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
