This is very useful for new users. If these snippets were all included in the empty/basic edition it would help the onboarding process significantly.
Without understanding how this works under the hood, would it be possible to create table of content style or hierarchical pop-ups similar to how context menus can be created in this thread.
Ex:
Another feature I would find useful is to have different background colours for different snippets.
You know, one feature I was thinkin about was adding a context to the trigger – a filter that receives the type of the input in a few variables, <tag>, <classes> maybe something else. This could potentially be used without a trigger defined so you could use this to detect that you’re in Advanced Search and make it such that if you manually trigger auto complete even with nothing input it would open the relevant trigger.
Unfortunately hierarchical menus aren’t really possible with how things are written right now and I think it goes beyond the scope of this plugin.
It’s time to add a Roadmap/Future plans tiddler to my showcase and write down all those great ideas!
Is this plugin part of any library?
If not, can you please consider publishing in a library @Maurycy ?
A library makes the update process a bit easier, as you can receive notifications about available updates inside the TW.
Not yet! Busy doing something else:
I’m wondering if I’ve found a slight bug with AutoComplete.
If I manually complete the link with the trigger [[. The resulting link shows a llink to a missing tiddler even though I’ve copied and pasted the title of the tiddler that exists. I don’t see any extra characters when I do this. The same holds true when I paste the title, highlight and then use the link button in the TW editor.
I do have a custom filter for the trigger which the title I’m pasting would not be part of (that’s why I’m pasting it). However, I wouldn’t expect the normal link behavior to change. Manually typing the square brackets without using AutoComplete should still create valid links.
Is this just me?
Oh no!
I am not 100% sure I followed your instructions correctly, because I couldn’t replicate the bug, but here is what I did:
Auto Complete
[[ – the auto complete window openedctrl+v – this pasted Auto Complete, the auto complete window updated as expectedEnter – This finished the insertion adding the closing ]] bracketsBut, I did it for a filter that includes the tiddler. So let’s do the same with a shadow tiddler:
$:/
$:/Acknowledgements
[[ – The auto complete window openedctrl+v – This pasted $:/Acknowledgements and the auto complete window correctly updated to show No resultsEnter – This cancelled the insertion (because no result was available) so the closing brackets weren’t added]] – To close the linkI am not sure I fully understand this part:
Are you saying you that if you use TW’s Link button for this tiddler name it also has this problem?
Probably the best way for me to investigate would be to create a small replication wiki:
Otherwise the next best thing is to just anonymize your wiki as much as you deem necessary and mail it to me as-is so I can work on the live organism 
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Lovely showcase! Nice boxes!
I did some experimenting just now and I am now thinking the problem is on my end.
The issue is isolated to a few specific tiddlers which are generated by some of my own macros. I think there’s an issue with these macros which I need to look into.
I’m now thinking there’s no issue on your end.
@Maurycy - definitely not an issue on your end. It turned out to be a space vs. no-break space issue with a couple of macros that I was using. So annoying.
Likely the next update will be either 1.1.0 (and include new features) or 2.0.0 (and include backwards-incompatible changes that may require some small tweaks to make old completions work). Preferably the former.
Feel free to check out the roadmap to know what ideas I am considering and feel free to hit me up with suggestions.
I’m using this successfully after installing yesterday, and it’s a great time-saver. Kudos, and many thanks!
I’ve had no issues except one as I tried to extend it today to work with Widgets. It successfully loads the full scrollable list of widgets, but doesn’t filter them as I type. I’m guessing that this is possible, and that the problems has to do with my configuration. Is there something wrong with this?
auto-trigger-textarea: 1
caption: Widgets
created: 20221222152528635
display-filter: [<currentTiddler>]
filter: [all[tiddlers+shadows]prefix[$:/core/modules/widgets/]] +[removeprefix[$:/core/modules/widgets/]] +[removesuffix[.js]]
modified: 20221222154409874
tags: $:/tags/EC/AutoComplete/Trigger
template: <$$option$ $caret$ >
title: $:/EvidentlyCube/Trigger/3
trigger: <?
type: text/vnd.tiddlywiki
Finds names of built-in widgets. (How to extend to custom ones, if they're not in the same namespace? A problem for later. Also won't work if tiddler names don't match widget name; don't know if that's a real concern.)
I also tried to move the adjustments out of the filter to the display-filter and transform-filter with no luck.
display-filter: [<currentTiddler>] +[removeprefix[$:/core/modules/widgets/]] +[removesuffix[.js]]
filter: [all[tiddlers+shadows]prefix[$:/core/modules/widgets/]]
transform-filter: [<currentTiddler>] +[removeprefix[$:/core/modules/widgets/]] +[removesuffix[.js]]
This is minor concern. I rarely need to do much type-ahead for widgets; I was mostly curious as to how I’d write a filter for them, and I pat myself on the back for figuring it out.
But now I’m wondering why it’s not working and whether I can adjust it to work as expected.
Looks like your filter gas mo additional filtering! You should add another +[search:title<query>] at the end of the filter and I think it should work, unless thr variable name is different but I can’t check right now.
That was it exactly! Thank you for your help.
And now I went back to see that you already had this as an example in your showcase. I missed the entire list of examples. Now I have to go see about the goodies…
Thanks again!
Wonderful! The core image also a good example to be added to triggers!
Maybe I missed it somewhere in the thread, can you elaborate on the bugs you’ve encountered in TW5-extendedit? The only bug I seem to encounter with TW5-extendedit is it sometimes just doesn’t work and I’m not sure why.
It’s covered in the “Why should you switch” section in the first post and randomly not working is exactly the problem that bothered me. And it bothered me a lot!
Even if TW5-extendedit has no issues, I would absolutely recommend switch to AutComplete!
It is very flexible in creating your own triggers with options and this allow you to create auto completion for anything you like in TiddlyWiki.
Some use cases for me:
I think autocomplete should be distributed with official plugin library as it a mush have tool
My DREAMS are likely orthogonal to your remit.
A list of variant dreams might be useful?
Just comments, TT
Ah thanks for clarifying. For me, I installed it but it didn’t work in fields which is where I use autocomplete the most. But I modified my add field area like so:
I believe the issue is not with your plugin, but rather my implementation of the add field area. I do know some portions of the code for adding field values changed between 5.2.1 (my current version) and in 5.2.5. Not sure if those changes to how field values are added has any effect on whether or not your plugin works for autocomplete in field values.
Do you mention a minimum version of TiddlyWiki your plugin supports?
Despite all of this, the prospect of having a reliable method of autocomplete is exciting