Hi Dave,
Yes, I am thinking how easily add words to index like LaTex!
@Mohammad I cant find the Topic where I was inspired to to create two select and sort text editor tool bar buttons attached;
text-sorter.json (3.7 KB)
Drop on tiddlywiki.com to test.
- It is not ready for publishing as you have to undo ctrl-z after you first attempt, and do it a second time.
Inside $:/PSaT/text-sorter/down you will see;
<$action-sendmessage
$message="tm-edit-text-operation"
$param="save-selection"
tiddler="$:/temp/selection"
/>
<$let
new-line={{{ [charcode[13],[10]] }}}
sorted={{{ [{$:/temp/selection}splitregexp[\n]sort[]join<new-line>] }}}
>
<$action-sendmessage
$message="tm-edit-text-operation"
$param="replace-selection"
text=<<sorted>>
/>
</$let>
You can see the selection gets saved to tiddler="$:/temp/selection" in the first action.
In effect the various $message=“tm-edit-text-operation” actions have access to the selection in the editor, thus you make use of https://tiddlywiki.com/#WidgetMessage%3A%20tm-edit-text-operation in this case perhaps only save-selection excise are relevant.
However as you can see from the above example any wiki text, macros, tiddler references and actions can be used inside a editor toolbar button.
To provide a button that allows selection from a list look at the stamp or more drop downs.
If I could find the post where I responded with this I raised the possibility of handling clipboards and other methods from the Editor Toolbar.
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We tried this in fishing plugin, and found it impossible to do so without JS. But that JS code is basically copy from the tw core’s code, is pretty simple.
Thanks @TW_Tones for this code ! I wil use it back for sure ! 
Is there a reason why you split text delimited by \n but you join it back with charcode[13],[10] which is \r\n ?
When we produce a single file wiki we deliberately strip out the CR \r character because it saves a lot of file size and it isn’t needed. Even most windows editors are able to deal with it now.
I don’t see a reason, why it should be added.
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The answer is because I got it wrong, charcode[10] would be enough.
The error came from decades of moving between windows text files and linux and mainframe files.
Post Script: Tiddlywiki.com also gives the example of charcode[13],[10] so no wonder I used it.
With help of great friends here, I was able to answer the original question in this thread!
FACTS
- The content of action tiddler can be any kind of action widgets
- You have to use
tm-edit-text-operationto access to selection
Solution
- Create an action tiddler with below text and fields
\define myTargetTid() Target
\define tempTid() $:/temp/append-button/selection
<$action-sendmessage
$message="tm-edit-text-operation"
$param="save-selection"
tiddler=<<tempTid>>
/>
<$vars linebreak="
">
<$action-setfield $tiddler=<<myTargetTid>> text={{{ [<myTargetTid>get[text]] [<tempTid>get[text]] +[join<linebreak>] }}}/>
</$vars>
|tags: |$:/tags/EditorToolbar|
|caption: |append selection |
|condition: | [<targetTiddler>] |
|description: |Append selection to target tiddler|
|icon: |$:/core/images/new-button |
- Save it
This will create a new toolbar button allow you to add any selection to a target tiddler.
Screencast
Some ideas to use this button
- take micro notes when editing/writing new tiddler
- create micro todos with date
Lovely work
Some other ideas to use this button
- Harvest content from throughout your wiki to compose a new tiddler based on that information.
- You could have a list of common phrases.
- Use on tiddlywiki.com (or copy of) to collect code snippets.
Mohamad I think companion buttons in the view toolbar (more) to copy either the title of a tiddler, the title wrapped in [[title]] or the text of the current tiddler to the same target. Here some prior art of mine, not checked today that may speed this. copy-text-title-buttons.json (4.1 KB)
PS Feel free to add your your list/solution as you wish @Mohammad
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Thank you @TW_Tones .
I am wondering how we can access to tiddler title through tm-text-operation or other methods inside editor!
targetTiddler variable for the draft tiddler.
Worth remembering that you can always add <$action-log/> to any action string and see what variables are defined.
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Some tips I value related to current tiddler
In addition to target tiddler that @saqimtiaz mentioned storyTiddler variable can help access the current tiddler in the story especialy if currentTiddler has being reused in another list.
But also one thing I discovered is what I call is the focused tiddler. The last navigated to tiddler found here {{$:/HistoryList!!current-tiddler}}
I am not sure it’s appropriate to use in the editor toolbar but it has value. I have supporting tools but again not published.
There is a notable pitfall tv-action-refresh-policythat may cause the button to need to be clicked twice to work.
TW document: https://tiddlywiki.com/#ActionWidget%20Execution%20Modes
My code: fishing/setexcerpt.tid at 987bdaa22dda38c751a33f903e0aee325d98c33d · oflg/fishing · GitHub
Just a side comment: English is our language here. But often it is very challenging to get right.
@Mohammad, you’d write “@saqimtiaz may have some advice here!”. (Singulars/Plurals are very difficult in English!) It is “advice”, not adviceS
I don’t want to spook @Mohammad. Merely help him as he writes English mostly well.
A side comment, TT.
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