As far as I can remember, chkToggleLinks came in very early in TiddlyWiki's history - early in 2005, I think, before the TiddlyWiki Google Group was established.
The feature was suggested by a user, I think with the goal of making it easier to "peek" at the target of a link by clicking once to open it and then clicking again to close it. I wasn't a huge fan of the idea, personally, but was happy to implement it under an option so that people could experiment with it. As time went on I found the feature more and more annoying, probably for much the same reasons as you're finding: it complicates one of TW's basic operations, and makes it harder to experiment with changes to related behaviour. It was one of the features that led to me creating the plugin mechanism, so that I didn't have to overload the core with every proposed modification or extension. Anyhow, I'm not sure whether it's worth taking the feature out at this point in TW's lifetime, what would you propose? Best wishes Jeremy On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Tobias Beer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, especially Jeremy / Eric... > > Can anyone explain the reason behind chkToggleLinks? > > All I can think of is that it means confusion and... trouble... like the > trouble I had when watching the behaviour in trying to understand what is > happening and how I can prevent it in my plugin. > > From my perspective, I would appreciate if this were removed from the core > and only implemented if some functionality actually needed it, but not as a > global setting for all tiddlyLinks. > > Single page mode would be a lot more meaningful than this, especially if > you desire to use TW as a website. > > Cheers, Tobias. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWikiDev" 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 http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:[email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" 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 http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
