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. 

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