There's a configuration tiddler: $:/config/Tags/MinLength
HTH -- Mark On Monday, October 1, 2018 at 5:40:14 PM UTC-7, Linda Moss wrote: > > Hi, > > To save me a few hours of digging around in the code, can anyone point me > at how to (or if there is already a plugin that) *prevents the "Tags" > field from listing possible tags until three letters are typed, a la the > search box?* > > To answer the inevitable why-on-earth-would-you-want-this question :) > > > - I have a Tiddlywiki I use as a Zettekasten (i.e. research notes + > omnireference, one thought per note). I use the tags to create tables of > contents, so every topic tiddler is tagged with a larger topic. (seven or > eight are tagged with the top-level "dashboard-topics", the rest are > descendants of these). > - Because I've taken a lot of notes, and because they divided into > small chunks of info, I have a LOT of tiddlers. And because of the way I > structure things, I therefore have a LOT of tags -- far more than would be > useful if I were using them the way "tags" are typically used in other > applications. > > As a result, whenever I edit or create a tiddler (which is often), as soon > as I tab into the "tags" field, there is about a second-and-a-half delay. > Which doesn't sound like much, but it inturrupts the flow :). Stats: > > > - Tiddlywiki size: 11.6 megabytes of text. Frankly, I'm amazed and > impressed that the tag field is the only scaling problem I've run into! > - Tiddlers: 4,360 (including 3,318 topic tiddlers, and 689 source > tiddlers) > - Tags: 1,122 (most of these are also topics, with their own notes) > > > Usually, I either know the tag I want to add, or I have it in the > clipboard to paste, or I'm just tabbing down to the main text area, and > have to tab through the tags area to get there. The list is sometimes very > helpful -- but only after I've typed in enough to greatly narrow the list > down. A drop-down menu with over a thousand entries is not helpful :). > > Thanks! > -- 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/2c43c9b3-6b61-4695-abc5-127750c33451%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
