That is a good practice because even [[My Dashboard]] needs delimiting. Regards Tony
On Tuesday, July 9, 2019 at 5:48:24 PM UTC+10, Flibbles wrote: > > 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/9c7aa978-6922-4449-bb1e-cf069ce8b4e8%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
