On Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at 12:40:53 AM UTC+1, TonyM wrote: > > If every tiddler (title) is cached internally for the link-widget > detection could this also be used to highlight all text in a tiddler, on > rendering a tiddler, that matches any existing tiddler title (or tag)?, >
Not really possible. There isn't enough info in the cache atm. It just holds a links[] array. And the parse tree has no positional info. ... > this would highlight somewhat relevant information in text and provide > opportunities to make links to tiddlers where none currently exist. > I don't understand this. [[doesn't exist]] is already possible now. ?!? > If at the same time the rendering process would also highlight text that > matches the last search string, > not possible. ... You can't style text-nodes. You first need to find the text -> convert it to eg: a span-node -> give the span a styling. ... > it would allow people searching for a word or phrase to open tiddlers and > see all occurrences of the search string highlighted. > If I need this behaviour, I use the browser built in search. > It seems to me if we already spent money on an "expensive" calculation > lets get more in return. > Good idea, but time consuming. > Such an approach will support a number of requirements raised in the forum > where we are struggling to find reasonable and inexpensive solutions. > "inexpensive" is the key word here. have fun! 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 [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/22e860c7-2575-42ee-a2e9-9cfa85b4e2fe%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
