Hi folks, I wanted to move this discussion to its own thread, since it is "off topic" in the thread, where it came up.
There is a proposal to improve indentation handling: On Wednesday, April 25, 2018 at 5:09:27 AM UTC+2, TonyM wrote: > > Mario, > > I hear all you are saying. On Further consideration. > > - The main need I have for tabs in wiki-text tiddlers is for > structuring information in edit mode so that it is more reasonable to > read. > I could live with its invisible non line break if in some modes I could > see > them, and even if not rendered in the View Template. > - The secondary need I have, which many authors and content provides > has is for indent in this case ":" works for this in tiddlywiki (although > on my keyboard it is a shift-: and you have to place ":::" at the > beginning > of a line not while you are typing. > - The final need is to organise text in simple columns, this is when > it is displayed as well, and its helpful that tab"text" moves it to the > next tab position. > > A work around for this last items would be > |*|Item|detail| > |*|Item 2|detail| > > if I could easily make the table boarders disappear. > > Regards > Tony > > On Wednesday, April 25, 2018 at 10:54:33 AM UTC+10, PMario wrote: >> >> On Wednesday, April 25, 2018 at 2:30:45 AM UTC+2, TonyM wrote: >>> >>> Using the CodeMirror plugin I can insert tabs in the text, long desired. >>> However the tabs only show in edit mode, not view mode >>> >> >> Tabs are __not__ a "styling" element. They are treated as whitespace in >> HTML. >> >> >>> However if a line has one or more tab characters in it it is not visible >>> yet it is no longer blank and will cause text to move up and join the line >>> before. ie; same paragraph. >>> >> >> That's an issue or feature request. ... I think you could start a new >> thread for codemirror only. ... It may be possible to create a setting, >> that shows whitespace, like spaces and tabs ... >> >> >>> This could frustrate a lot of people trying to debug their tiddler view >>> content. >>> >> >> As I wrote. Either create a new issue at github or start a new thread in >> the group. So it won't be forgotten. >> >> >>> Solutions?, A edit/View mode that shows hidden characters, >>> >> >> Should be possible. >> >> >>> or honour tabs in view mode such that they also end the paragraph/ >>> >> >> no .. Only 2 "new lines" ends a paragraph. >> >> If tabs cause a lot of problems, we will need to turn them off for TW >> wikitext. They are invisible anyway. >> >> Tabs can only be used for json, data tidlers, CSS, SVG and javascript >> code. >> >> 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/6ee47659-a324-4040-b310-799ffe0606f2%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
