Gosh, wish I had known about the SetWidget's super powers ;-) I suspect only a small percentage of users avail themselves of the formatting features for "new journal here.". The ones that do will be somewhat techy and may even check the original documentation to see if things have changed.
So ... maybe just a change to the documentation will be sufficient, possibly with a note that a former usage has been removed ?? Thanks for making such a great product! -- Mark On Thursday, December 13, 2018 at 1:30:48 AM UTC-8, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > This is indeed the result of a change in v5.1.18: > > > https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/commit/35cbb127a3c21b7047517f1eeeff571a420b82ae > > The problem was that the set widget was performing the same variable text > substitutions as a macro definition. This behaviour was never documented, > and was entirely inadvertent. > > Meanwhile, it sounds like a behaviour that depended on that bug has been > documented. > > That puts us in the invidious position of being forced to either break > backwards compatibility or to leave the original bug unfixed. To me, the > original bug is much worse, and much harder to debug. (I mean that a text > substitution that is unexpectedly not performed is much easier to spot than > a text substitution that is unexpectedly performed). > > Best wishes > > Jeremy > > -- > Jeremy Ruston > > > On 13 Dec 2018, at 06:27, TonyM <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > Yes they will then ! > > If I had tried to do this without such documentation, I would have tried > <<currentTiddler>> first, but then that is just me. > > Thanks Mark > > On Thursday, December 13, 2018 at 2:52:10 PM UTC+11, Mark S. wrote: >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, December 12, 2018 at 7:42:34 PM UTC-8, TonyM wrote: >>> >>> h0p3 >>> >>> I think perhaps it was fortunate it worked for you before, but marks >>> suggestion was possible always the best way to do it as it makes fewer >>> assumptions, clearly one of which is no longer valid. >>> >>> >> But it wasn't just fortunate -- it's the documented way! So if the change >> is real and permanent, then the docs need to be updated. >> >> Have fun >> -- Mark >> > -- > 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] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:>. > 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/f87d25b0-a7b7-4a54-8d38-2d4b4e02b1df%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/f87d25b0-a7b7-4a54-8d38-2d4b4e02b1df%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- 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/76509ca9-7ea6-47b1-8023-e27b6ece4d7f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
