On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 10:31:10 PM UTC, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > There's no support for multiline fields in .tid files. TiddlyWiki5 > inherited the .tid file format from TiddlyWeb. I quite like that it is > incredibly simple to parse, and would worry that introducing multiline > field support would complicate compatibility. JSON is really the next level > up, providing a more flexible, standard format at the expense of > readability and writability. > > I vaguely recall FND and I have a discussion about how or if to implement multiline support in fields in the tid format and we basically decided that it wasn't worth the effort. The constraint is useful: for casual folk it reminds that fields are supposed to be just that, a field; for the more adventurous they are compelled to either use a more advance format (like the JSON you've pointed out) or do some special case encoding for their special case fields.
There are a lot of these kinds of decisions throughout TiddlyWeb (and presumably TiddlyWiki) that seem to have played out pretty well. -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywikidev/d184baa3-b2e1-406e-afe8-18a682a910a7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
