Hi Rich, I'm currently revising the entire filter documentation on tiddlywiki.com, to make it clearer and more consistent and generally easier to find your way around. I'm nearing the end of this now – although I see Tobias has sent pull requests for lots of new options! :) – so with any luck my changes will appear in a new prerelease sometime next week.
You're right that a filter does nothing by itself. That's because filters aren't WikiText. If they were, they'd conflict with the WikiText syntax for links: e.g. in filter-speak, *[[Scrambled Eggs]]* is shorthand for *[title[Scrambled Eggs]]*, while *[[ScrambledEggs]]* in WikiText is of course a link to that tiddler. A filter is just a way of selecting a bunch of tiddlers *for some subsequent purpose*. They're often used as attributes to widgets, or as parameters to macros. – æ -- 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.
