Hi Mat > In attempting to make a TitlePicker, a fellow tiddleur proposed how tying [[ > in the editor should automatically add closing brackets and put the caret in > between, as is done in some other software. Is this possible? I.e to trigger > an action when a string is typed in the edtior, including controlling the > position of the caret? > > The background is that, for the TitlePicker (and many other similar tools to > come) it is problematic to identify a string segment via regexp when it is > unclear what distinguishes the end of the segment - for example to know if > [[this tiddler title ends here or here or here... as there are no closing > brackets. The problem would totally solved if the closing brackets were > automatically added as soon as [[ was typed and one continued to type between > the bracket pairs.
Yes, that sounds like an interesting experiment, and I think feasible. Best wishes Jeremy > > <:-) > > > -- > 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 tiddlywikidev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:tiddlywikidev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywikidev/5d2a0412-d7eb-4dc5-b7b1-5e42a3a3c526%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywikidev/5d2a0412-d7eb-4dc5-b7b1-5e42a3a3c526%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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 tiddlywikidev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywikidev/FCA9F81A-D025-4CA1-AE98-A61914CB01A2%40gmail.com.
