Dave, I use Linux all day at work, and regularly at home, so I would be interested in seeing the bash script you've got, if you don't mind posting it. I think I've heard you mention it in previous threads as well. YAD wouldn't be a problem, as it's widely available.
I haven't looked into Bob yet, but I'm excited to check it out - it seems to have a lot of potential. Even with all of the above capability, this doesn't solve the problem for a wider user base. Including the capabilities we're discussing here in a common (and widely available) packaging is what will expand the TW user base. While I can use Linux, install and test plugins, and set up Bob, most general users aren't going to want to do such things. Honestly, I don't want to hack these things together either - I'd much rather have a project built on Tiddlywiki with capabilities like we're discussing ready to go, right out of the box, built by people who know what they're doing (definitely not me). Maybe packaged with an updated TiddlyDesktop. Still, beggars can't be choosers, and until I break down and learn to develop what I want, I'll be happy with the unrealized capability of TW, and the ability to cobble together something that mostly works for myself. Or I'll use StackEdit, DynaList, Trillium, or Scrivener where they make more sense. thanks for sharing your code, I'm interested in seeing what it does. On Tuesday, January 15, 2019 at 9:48:04 AM UTC-8, Dave wrote: > > P.S., this very discussion topic is the reason I'm so happy to have found > Bob, simply because I can now use bash to manipulate tiddlers (text files) > at will (as I'm more proficient at bash than javascript) > > On Tuesday, January 15, 2019 at 10:45:31 AM UTC-7, Dave wrote: >> >> I have the beginnings of a setup like this, but it only works if you have >> a node-based TW system: >> >> I have a bash script (on Linux) that at a keystroke pops up a text dialog >> (big space for writing text), and it uses the first line as the tiddler >> title field, and anything you write immediately after that without empty >> lines can become part of the fields. >> >> E.g. just now I called it up (without having my TW open in the browser) >> and wrote: >> >> this is a test tiddler 2019-01-15 >> tags: wowser >> >> >> bla bla bla >> >> and then I opened up my TW and there it was [[this is a test tiddler 2019 >> -01-15]] with the tag "wowser" and the text below bla bla bla. It >> automatically inserts the fields "created" and "modified" both with today's >> date. >> >> >> I'd imagine you should be able to re-program the script to allow several >> sections in the text to break it up into several different tiddlers. >> >> I don't have the time right now to actually do that (I'm a non-programmer >> by trade) but is this something you'd want me to post for you? (depends on >> if you have linux, and also you'd need the program YAD (yet another dialog) >> for it to work. >> >> - Dave P >> > -- 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/1ec49822-ec9c-40bc-aa23-06444b78b345%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
