Dear Jeremy, I followed Tobias' suggestion to the same helpful conclusion, which I thank you for, too.
However, I wasn't clear in my question: I most often use the free-standing TiddlyWiki application, and even upon occasion the terminal-based program that stores each tiddly as a separate file. In both these cases the infrastructure of a browser is not available, so I should have stated that it might be a good idea to have the option to add and Forward and/or Back button(s), either to each tiddler or in the area to the right that contains the + button for making new tiddlers. This might be a lot to ask, as, as you point out, it already is available when TittdlyWiki is run within a browser. However, it still might be worth thinking about implementing, because it would be one more step on the way to making TiddlyWiki an application with fewer external dependencies. After all, the browser paradigm for navigation is now used by everything from applications to operating systems. However, another reason the buttons might be redundant is the "Recent" option on the right. Although this certainly provides the functionality of a Back button, this requires a little more thought and is therefore is little bit slower than just hitting a button to return to where you came form (or forward, if there is such in the history that is implied by all of this. Since speed of the essence when writing (the less encumbrances the better), I don't think "Recent" moots the simplicity of the Back/Forward paradigm. Also Tobias mentioned that it might be wise to be in single-tiddler mode, which would not apply if a history mechanism were built into each tiddler file. This should also apply to things like style, which seem not to be associated with a particular tiddler so much as the environment within which it is run. E.g. The colors assigned to tabs revert to the single, standard color when opened in another environment, unless I am severely mistaken. Thanks for your response! Nick On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Jeremy Ruston <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Nick > > > I am curious whether someone has already written some sort of routine > that would make navigating BACK and FORWARD in the navigation history of > TiddlyWiki, so it would act, in this regard, just like a web browser. > > TiddlyWiki5 provides a configuration option which makes the browser back > and forward buttons move through the history of navigation between tiddlers. > > Visit the ControlPanel tab "Settings" and look for the following settings: > > * Navigation Address Bar - set to "Include the target tiddler and the > current story sequence" > * Navigation History - set to "Update history" > > Best wishes > > Jeremy. > > > > On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Nicholas Spies <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am new to both TiddlyWiki and JavaScript. I am curious whether someone >> has already written some sort of routine that would make navigating BACK >> and FORWARD in the navigation history of TiddlyWiki, so it would act, in >> this regard, just like a web browser. >> >> Studying JavaScript only for a matter of a week or so, I would still >> hazard that this would either mean creating or tapping into the path one >> traverses in navigating TiddlyWiki and creating a means to track where one >> "is" on in this list (built-in or made for the purpose) and then buttons to >> go Back and Forward (if, indeed there is a "forward") in this equivalent of >> a browser history list. >> >> If I knew how, I would write it myself...but since I cannot, any pointers >> to either someone's solution to this, a built-in mechanism for doing it >> with TiddlyWiki out of the box, or pointers as to how to go about making >> such buttons. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Nick Spies >> >> -- >> 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. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
