> > BurningTreeC wrote: >>> >>> ok, meanwhile I made it work in textareas, too and tried some things in >>> this direction. It seems to be possible. >>> >> >> HA! I did not expect you to actually look into this but it seems you >> also sense how extremely useful this would be if it worked :-D !!!!!! >> > > yes it would be great to have all in one! > >> >> >>> What would be great and necessary if doing it following this idea, is a >>> insert-text tm-edit-text-operation that just inserts text at the cursor >>> position/selection and moves the cursor to the end of the inserted text, >>> without leaving a selection. The replace-text operation I'm using at the >>> moment can't just insert a space without leaving a selected space, it's not >>> like pressing the space-bar normally, sadly... >>> >> >> No solution, but trying to understand (and maybe someone more >> knowledgable has ideas): When you say "space", you're referring to the >> space character " ", right?, as opposed to e.g the space/area that is >> currently typed at or perhaps the space/are after the replaced text is >> inserted. And you're saying that it, at the moment, not is possible to e.g >> type the triggering string "[[foo bar" because the space character makes >> things trigger already at "[[foo" ...and by continuing to type "bar", this >> overwrites wherever the "[[foo" is temporarily stored in some state type >> tiddler? Or is it that the to-be-inserted text must not contain a space >> character? >> > > yes exactly, I'm referring to the space " " character. I want to make > pressing the space-bar on the keyboard insert the " " character and > additionally trigger an action string > therefor a text-operation that doesn't select the replacement would be > needed and I haven't found one that behaves like needed. I think the editor > stamp tool also uses "replace-selection" which leaves a selected " " if > inserting a space character. Then, when typing, the space gets replaced by > the first typed character... that's not what we want here > > the "[[foo bar" example wouldn't work when using space as the trigger, but > the trigger can be any key-combination that works as a keyboard shortcut. > the problem is when and how the text stored in the separate tiddler should > be reset ... my idea was to reset every time the space character is pressed > so that it never contains the whole text which would be contraproductive >
But also using the space bar it wouldn't work consistently ... just type something, don't press space, then klick another position in the text and type ... > >> Might the editor Stamp tool solve this in any way? >> >> >> >>> Would be great to reveal the popup at the position where the cursor is, >>> but that's a different task >>> >> >> Ah, yes. Later question. >> >> Thanks for looking at this! >> >> <:-) >> > -- 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 tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. 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/3722fb1d-8bfd-4202-8210-ba613d7b399c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
