Mark, I cant see the superpower of the set widget you refer to?
Regards Tony On Friday, December 14, 2018 at 1:53:51 AM UTC+11, Mark S. wrote: > > 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]> 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 assumptions, clearly one of which is no longer valid.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]. >> 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/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/e353660f-5f7e-4d86-96aa-80d34a091368%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
