On Saturday, December 15, 2018 at 11:38:52 AM UTC+1, joearms wrote: > > I wanted to list all core images so I wrote > > <<list-links "[prefix[$:/core/images]]">> > > I saw nothing - Am I going nuts? this worked > > <<list-links "[prefix[How]]">> > > This did what I expected - what does the "documentation" say > (by that mean https://tiddlywiki.com/#list-links%20Macro%20(Examples)) > (I assume this is the definitive version) > > This example lists all the tiddlers whose titles start with J: > <<list-links filter:"[prefix[J]]">> > > Applying the principle of least astonishment then > > <<list-links "[prefix[$:/core/images]]">> > > Should list all tiddlers whose title starts $:/code/images - but it does > not >
That's right. see:https://tiddlywiki.com/#SystemTiddlers ... Tiddlers are classified as system tiddlers if their title starts with the > special string $:/. The only difference from ordinary tiddlers is that > they are hidden from most searches and lists ... > So your filter needs to be [all[shadows]prefix[$:/core/images]] all operator: https://tiddlywiki.com/#all%20Operator A TiddlyWiki contains 3 types of tiddlers. - Shadow tiddlers <https://tiddlywiki.com/#ShadowTiddlers>... come with the core or with plugins, start with $:/, should be hidden from end-users, can be overwritten, but not deleted. - System tiddlers <https://tiddlywiki.com/#SystemTiddlers>... should be hidden from end-users, because they are used by the core TW for internal tasks. eg: state-tiddlers - tiddlers ... everything, that endusers / consumers should see by default. With TWclassic we had a lot of problems with so called "system-tags". TWc doesn't know about the $:/ prefix. So plugin authors and content creators, did create tags, that shouldn't be seen by consumers. ... That's why a mechanism was created, that allowed creators to "hide" those tag tiddlers from consumer-facing lists. Some special tags where invented. excludeLists, excludeSearch, excludeXXX ... In the long run, this mechanism caused more problems, -m -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywikidev/43600d46-2aec-4dd9-b860-68b5971ad5bf%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
