On Sunday, May 12, 2019 at 12:45:45 PM UTC+2, @TiddlyTweeter wrote: ... > The confusion for me, I think, is Tiddlers Have Fields Already so why are > we adding others a different way rather than changing field behaviour? >
The problem is, that we don't have a structure, that allows us to use multi-line fields with the .tid file format. eg: title: tiddler-title tags: a b c [[d e]] my-field: 1 line of text is possible text field starts here. Fields can't handle muliti-lines. As you can see, there is no way at the moment to add multi-line fields in a sensible way. There are 2 main points which are important: 1) It must be easy for humans to read and modify 2) It should be relatively easy for machines to parse the content. No. 1) is more important than No. 2! I personally think, that the existing field editing mechanism (UI) is cumbersome. Especially since fields are alphabetically sorted ... ATM there are differences between core-fields eg: created, modified, ... or tags. ... They have built in behaviors, which are hard for ordinary users to duplicate. Eg: It's hard if I want to create a field eg: my-tags, that behave like the tag field. Especially I want to have an automatic UI, that let's me handle my-tags the same way as the existing tags-dropdown. My proposal makes this possible with eg: \field my-tags(type:tag) a b [[c d]] \end Since fields can have a user defined "type" now, it will be possible to automatically create the tag-like UI for my-tags field ... and so on ... -mario -- 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/bd45e618-c504-4eec-8eab-abfe0bdc3050%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
