I'll be honest, it took me a while to figure out how to get the plugin
code from your site, but I've installed it and been testing it, and it
does everything I was hoping it would!  Thanks!  (I'll also be looking
at it for ideas on how to implement another plugin I'm working on...)

-- Joe

On Mar 1, 2:18 pm, Eric Shulman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > What I would find very useful is if there was some way to implement
> > globbing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glob_%28programming%29) in
> > the matching process so that matches between tiddler titles and tags
> > would not have to be EXACT.  For instance, a tiddler titled "reports-
> > march-*" might match all tiddlers with a tag that starts with "reports-
> > march-", like ""reports-march-03" and ""reports-march-09".
>
> The core's <<list filter [tag[tagvalue]]>> function generates lists of
> tagged tiddlers but, as you noted, only does exact matches of a single
> tag value...
>
> Fortunately, I've written:
>    http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#MatchTagsPlugin
>
> to extend the core's store.filterTiddlers() function (and a few other
> bits and pieces) so that you can use full boolean syntax ("and", "or",
> "not", with nested parens as needed) to join tag terms together into
> complex conditionals:
>
> <<list filter [tag[foo and bar or (baz and mumble) or not gronk]]>>
>
> In addition, the individual tag 'terms' can be regular expresions text
> patterns
> (seehttp://www.TiddlyTools.com/faq.html#FAQ_RegularExpressionsfor
> syntax)
>
> Thus, it becomes trivial to 'glob' a list of tagged tiddlers, like
> this:
>    <<list filter [tag[reports-march-.*]]>>
> or perhaps even something selective like:
>    <<list filter [tag[reports-(march|april|may)-.*]]>>
>
> enjoy,
> -e
> Eric Shulman
> TiddlyTools / ELS Design Studios
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