@Saq - as noted previously; thank you for your support!

https://saqimtiaz.github.io/sq-tw/editormagic-poc.html 
> <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsaqimtiaz.github.io%2Fsq-tw%2Feditormagic-poc.html&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGTm_PVMDJvlE4WAKZFm7ImI7yvEg>
>  

You get full access to variables like currentTiddler; there are 
> improvements that let you know exactly where the text caret is, so you can 
> ignore text before or after, and I tweaked your popup code so that it 
> doesn't give multiple results if there are multiple unclosed link brackets 
> .... amongst other things. 
>
How anyone can throw together that in 30 minutes is astonishing, to say the 
least. And you've immediately grasped some of the big struggles I've 
had/have. 


[...] if you have unfinished links that can cause some issues, and it will 
> only in textareas/inputs where it has been setup to work.


Do you refer to what I see in you $:/core/modules/widgets/action-popupcaret 
- i.e the reference to Snowgoons cursor-position.js ? If yes, I'm assuming 
this is why the default text editor is changed. Does this mean the solution 
cannot work with the regular text editor? I'm hoping EditorMagic can 
eventually become a plugin that people can rely on and not cause problem in 
core updates.


Still lots more room for improvement, like only showing a popup if the 
> triggers are found, rather than showing an empty popup (not visible) if 
> there are no trigger matches.
>

You're absolutely right but if I have any forte it would be css - or, 
rather, *patience *with css - so that's the only way I figured out how to 
control show or not without js. If you have better solutions, I'd be more 
than happy to see them ;-)

Actually -  I have no idea what to do next in this, mostly because of 
limits in what wikitext can do since I don't know JS. A long time ago I 
posted gh request for popups via custom strings 
<https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/3784> exactly because it 
is beyond wikitext, and because I think such a mechanism would enable a lot 
of things for wikitext coders i.e to focus on the popup *content.* From 
your demo, you seem to have created a solution for this so do you think you 
could generalize it into a plugin? For one thing, I note that you announced 
a floating editor toolbar 
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tiddlywiki/1oFNPGtQj3c> - well 
done!!! - which seems to also use a popup mechanism so it is clear that 
there are use cases.

Sorry if I'm a bit incoherent. EditorMagic, or something like it, still 
doesn't exist but I have no idea what I can do as a next step.

<:-)

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