At present we use the currentTiddler variable in this way:
{{!!field}}
is, in psuedo code, {{<<currentTiddler>>!!field}}
so if you have a value in a variable 'myvar' you can do
{{<<myvar>>!!field}} as
<$vars currentTiddler=<<myvar>>/>
{{!!field}}
</$vars>
all the best BJ
On Wednesday, November 2, 2016 at 7:30:23 PM UTC, [email protected] wrote:
>
> I'm looking in to indirect inline transclusion with the curly-brace
> syntax, a la {{somevar->field}} which, if somevar is set to "tiddlername"
> (e.g. with <$set/>) then it would resolve to the same thing as
> {{tiddlername!!field}}. I think the arrow operator is reasonably
> appropriate. I can imagine a number of useful use cases for this notation.
>
> At first I thought I could just modify $:/core/modules/utils/utils.js such
> as modifying parseTextReference's regex to read (modifications in bold):
> var reTextRef = /(?:(.*?)!!(.+))*|(?:(.+?)->(.*))*
> |(?:(.*?)##(.+))|(.*)/mg,
> ...
>
>
>
>
>
> * if(match[3]) { result.title =
> this.getVariable(match[3]); } if(match[4]) {
> result.field = match[4]; }*
>
> But then I realized that this is fundamentally impossible since variables
> are stored in widgets and there's no bound context inside the utils module
> that can reference the parent widget stack ... right?
>
> Is there another approach, or a way to make this approach work? I could
> define another parser or a new widget but I think it makes most sense as a
> subtle change from the existing curly-brace syntax. Besides, doing it
> inside parseTextReference means it would immediately work for everything
> that calls parseTextReference, such as within filters.
>
> Thoughts?
>
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