Mark and c pa,
Thanks for your ideas. C pa, The idea of sorting the selection as words is
interesting and one I would like to keep up my sleeve, however I need to
get a hybrid of yours and Marks to sort the lines, keeping the line breaks.
It's about sorting lines, in fact it will help sort lines beginning with *
, # or even ":" to make bulleted/indented lists alphabetical or sort text
as keys about to be pasted into a data tiddler etc...
*Further issues arising*
*Regex as a way to include special characters like line breaks*
This prompts me to ask can we use regex to insert a line break where we
want in a filter. ie rather than search or transform text/titles with regex
can it be used to generate special characters into the filter output?
*Line handling in filters and sorting primitives*
This makes me question why we do not have the primitives needed for
handling rows/lines and sorting them, in filters and sorting tools outside
of the filters. This is all simple javascript, I expect already contained
within tiddlywiki just not surfaced for users and designers.
You answers and this problem also dovetails with a project to have a
leading period "." to render a line in html p tags. We could sort
paragraphs as well, this sounds a little odd but it depends what the
paragraphs are.
*Line or paragraph based excise, WOW!.*
What if we had an excise tool that would automatically generate multiple
paragraph based tiddlers, tagging them with a named tag (or equivalent), we
could then quickly extract paragraphs to separate tiddlers in a single
select step, and use the tag (or equivalent), to reorder them manually.
Since they are related by tag the generated tiddlers can be renamed and or
given captions separately. In this case after excise we would insert into
the source tiddler the list macro to display the paragraphs so tagged. If
desired this list could have a template= added to handle the way each
paragraph is displayed, including the possibility of making them drag drop
reordered in the source tiddler. Even better is the template would be
selectable and you could use an edit template, or view template from inside
the source tiddler.
Regards
Tony
On Friday, October 4, 2019 at 9:24:53 AM UTC+10, c pa wrote:
>
> OK this works.
> This copies the selected text into a temp tiddler, then sorts the text in
> the temp tiddler. (That returns a title list) Then joins the list with
> spaces
>
> title: _cpa/ui/EditorToolbar/sort-text
> tags: $:/tags/EditorToolbar
> caption: Sort Selected Text
> condition: [<targetTiddler>!has[type]]
> [<targetTiddler>type[text/vnd.tiddlywiki]]
> description: Button to sort the selected text
> icon: $:/core/images/bold
>
> text:
> <$action-sendmessage
> $message="tm-edit-text-operation"
> $param="excise"
> title="$:/temp/sort-text"
> macro="x"
> />
> <$action-sendmessage
> $message="tm-edit-text-operation"
> $param="replace-selection"
> text={{{ [list[$:/temp/sort-text!!text]sort[]join[ ]] }}}
> />
>
>
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