Ciao wjam & Jerremy I am using wjam's version. I have been for some weeks now. Its really excellent!
I can only comment from the surface level of what i do. CASE 1 - *Developing Regular Expressions in TW*. It has been a godsend to be able to backtrack multiple versions. IMO the number of PAST VERSIONS to save should be user configurable from 1 up to infinity. The reason (that working with Regex really brings out) is that you can be developing something that later can be used to BRANCH a totally different way ... Without that version saved you lose it. But say I have versions 1 thru 20. And realise that only version 15 and 17 are special. Can I delete the others? What happens in the editor when I load the TW associated with those versions I deleted? To sum up: Versioning is Good. Very good. For my use case I do NOT need to access in the editor directly to all the previous versions. Just know they are there if I need. But also be able to delete what I don't. CASE 2 - *Writing Screenplays*. Here my need is more limited. Two backsteps is way enough for most practical purposes. There is no need for "branching" or preservation beyond two previous drafts. I'd simply like to be able to look at what I wrote before sometimes. These variant cases indicate that in Case 1 I'd prefer infinite versions saved. In Case 2, two would be enough. HOW SHOULD IT LOOK? -- Well, in practice I'm only using the wjam view that shows things down to character change level. I love how its configurable in-situ. In practice I have most of the options OFF. In practice I'm likely to just use one mode. MOANS: Not sure this is solvable but full alignment of editing text and what was in the previous version. The preview area is not exactly optimal for easy comparison. Under wjam you get this (screenshot) ... It would be better IMO to put the notes about past versions that currently appear above the text in "preview" *under* the text. And, if possible, have an option to totally switch off the display of the menu in the preview pane so the previous version can be properly top-aligned. Adjustable widths for the editor and preview windows would enable better visual alignment too. IMO that is the best way to compare versions--that the start of a line in the editor you can align with the corresponding point in previous version. at the moment that seems cumbersome. Best wishes Josiah Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > This is looking good, congratulations. As discussed above, we need to > figure out how to reconcile this with the PR I’ve been working on ( > https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/3112): > > -- 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/19d03210-12a2-4e77-a0a7-749e912838bd%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
