Thanks Mark. I've got some questions before I try this. How much would it complicate things if I only wanted to perform this operation on tiddlers with a specific tag? Also, with the delay that you've mentioned, is this only for the first time it's run or every time I add a new tiddler?
Thanks, Damon On Thursday, December 13, 2018 at 10:23:33 PM UTC-7, Mark S. wrote: > > Ok. Here's code that should be able to do it. > > > *But PLEASE make a backup of your work before trying this!!!! IT'S REALLY > IMPORTANT! THIS MACRO MAY CHANGE EVERY TIDDLER IN YOUR TW FILE!!* > > There are several caveats here. > > One is that *every eligible tiddler will have it's modification date > changed.* > > Do this on a desktop, not on a tablet or small device! > > Another, when you first save the tiddler with the button, there may be a > delay. You may be asked if you want to keep waiting. You need to keep > waiting. > > When you finally press the button, there will be even longer delays while > it processes. You will probably be asked several times if you want to wait > for the page before the process completes. It typically took 2 to 3 "waits" > on tiddlywiki.com, and there's only 1100 tiddlers there! > > I strongly recommend that you close out any tabs you don't need. In fact, > be sure all your work in all your applications is saved in case the browser > hangs the machine. > > At the top of the code you can set a value for min-per-group. This is the > minimum number of tiddlers you want before creating its own group entry. > Paste the code into a tiddler and close the tiddler. Then, if you're sure > you want to, press the button. > > The reason this code is so inefficient is that it is generating all 17576 > possible combinations of 3 letters and checking to see if any of your > tiddlers match by title. A much more efficient code could have been written > with just a tiny bit of javascript. Oh well. > > Be careful! > Have fun -- if you can! > > -- Mark > > \define min-per-group() 10 > \define ABC() A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z > \define xABC() A B C D E F > \define regexpABC() (?i)^$(letr1)$$(letr2)$$(letr3)$ > \define glueABC() $(letr1)$$(letr2)$$(letr3)$ > > <$button> Create alphabetical TOC structure > <$list filter="[enlist<ABC>]" variable=letr1> > <$list filter="[enlist<ABC>]" variable=letr2> > <$list filter="[enlist<ABC>]" variable=letr3> > <$list filter= > "[all[tiddlers]!has[draft.of]regexp<regexpABC>rest<min-per-group>limit[1]]" > variable="dummy"> > <$action-setfield $tiddler=<<glueABC>> tags=<<letr1>> /> > <$list filter="[all[tiddlers]regexp<regexpABC>]" > > <$fieldmangler> > <$action-sendmessage $message="tm-remove-tag" $param=<<letr1>>/ > > > <$action-sendmessage $message="tm-add-tag" $param=<<glueABC>> > /> > </$fieldmangler> > </$list> > > </$list> > </$list> > </$list> > </$list> > </$button> > > > > > > -- 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/83f82d95-209e-47d7-ad21-659820f51622%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
