You are awesome Riz! Thanks!!

On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 11:31 PM Riz <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi again Aidan
>
> Sorry I missed the second part of your question.
> To start off, that is an excellent idea you put forward. I simply used to
> switch to text type when I need multiple line breaks, for sake of sheer
> laziness. What you propose is the solution, now I see it.
>
> I can see where you went wrong. The wrap-lines function in TW-5 is a
> misnomer. It actually wraps the entire selection, and adds the prefix and
> suffix only once to the selection. Here is the difference between wrap-line
> and wrap-selection function in TW5.
>
> Wrap-selection:: If you select a part of a line(for eg: a couple of lines
> in a sentence), wrap selection will add suffix and prefix to those few
> words only. This is used in toolbar buttons like bold, italics etc
> Wrap-lines:: Even if you select a part of a line, it will wrap the entire
> line/lines and add suffix and prefix to the whole selection. That is to
> say, you cannot end selection in the middle of a line when you are using
> this function. This is used in quote-blocks and code-blocks.
>
> In short, wrap-lines is not wrap-each-line, but wrap-all-lines-once.
>
> Now since I want the functionality you proposed, I put together a plugin
> to do exactly what you want. It is a new text-edit-operation called
> suffix-lines. It is similar to prefix-lines, but adds suffix. If you have
> multiple lines in your selection, suffix will be added to each of those
> lines. Similar to prefix-lines, it also has a "count" parameter. So if you
> set the count as 2 or more, it will duplicate the suffix characters that
> many times.
>
> For example, here is the text for editor toolbar button that will add 2
> linebreaks at the end of each lines in selection.
>
> <$action-sendmessage
>     $message="tm-edit-text-operation"
>     $param="suffix-lines"
>     character="<br/>"
>     count="2"
> />
>
>
> There is one functionality I left out in comparison to prefix-lines.
> Prefix lines will remove the prefix character if it is already present in
> the selection. It is convienient to have it, but I hardly ever use it, so I
> have not bothered.
>
> I am attaching the plugin along with a couple of other tiddlers which will
> actually add the editor toolbar button to add line-breaks. The toolbar
> button is not a part of plugin. The plugin only provides suffix-lines.js
> which you may use in any number of editor toolbar buttons.
>
> sincerely
> Riz
>
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