That's understandable. Another solution would be requiring tiddlers starting with + - ~ to be wrapped in brackets in stringified lists.
Illegal: tiddlerA [[tiddler with spaces]] --My-Dashboard-- Legal: tiddlerA [[tiddler with spaces]] [[--My-Dashboard--]] On Tuesday, July 9, 2019 at 3:45:30 AM UTC-4, TonyM wrote: > > 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/dde165dc-496f-4987-a8e0-30eafdc0ae51%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
