Fibbles I think as a rule we try and keep the available characters we can use in tittles as broad as possible.
Any way, I will leave it to the developers to comment. Regards Tony On Tuesday, July 9, 2019 at 5:37:12 PM UTC+10, Flibbles wrote: > > Right. That's correct. That's why they're not equivalent. Filter syntax > has special use cases for when filter runs start with + - ~, but lists > don't care about that. A word starting with + - ~ in a list is just > interpreted as part of the tiddler title. I think the list parser should > treat them as special cases, just as the filter parser does. > > On Tuesday, July 9, 2019 at 3:33:31 AM UTC-4, TonyM wrote: >> >> See this documentation for the use of + - ~ tiddler name, perhaps this is >> where this is coming from >> >> https://tiddlywiki.com/#Filter%20Expression >> >> Tony >> >> On Tuesday, July 9, 2019 at 4:03:27 PM UTC+10, Flibbles wrote: >>> >>> I'm writing plugins, and for a while, I was working under the assumption >>> that lists are just a subset of filters, which is super convenient in many >>> cases. >>> >>> tiddlerA tidderB [[tiddler with spaces]] >>> >>> can be interpreted as either. >>> >>> However, it's not actually true. If you have a tiddler that starts with >>> a '+' or a '-'. It breaks down. >>> >>> tiddlerA -tiddler-with-dashes >>> >>> produces different results. You have to have: >>> >>> tiddlerA [[-tiddler-with-dashes]] >>> >>> and I guess that's fine, but it looks like this case has never been >>> considered. >>> >>> Either >>> >>> $tw.utils.stringifyList needs to properly wrap such tiddlers in >>> brackets, which it currently doesn't, OR tiddlers starting with '+' or '-' >>> need to be prohibited. I'm actually leaning toward prohibiting it, because >>> otherwise this can cause confusion for users who want to do something like >>> have "--Homepage--" be their Default tiddler, but when they put that in the >>> setting, it doesn't work, because the instructions don't mention that >>> dashes would need to be wrapped. Tiddlywiki already prohibits brackets. Why >>> not this too? >>> >>> -Flibbles >>> >> -- 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/b6aa0be4-734f-4375-862f-e0ce8be85d72%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
