The upcoming v5.3.0 release of TiddlyWiki introduces some significant improvements and new features related to some of TiddlyWiki’s most fundamental components: macros, widgets, operators and transclusion. v5.3.0 also contains several other bug fixes and improvements. All the changes are intended to…

One way to learn about the new features is to see how the core itself uses the new features. For example See https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/#%24%3A%2Fcore%2Fmacros%2Flist and learn how genesis is used!

Some documentation questions: Macro Pitfalls includes the following on performance of global macros: Global Macro Definitions defined with the SystemTag: $:/tags/Macro suffer from poor performance because every macro has to be parsed regardless of whether it is actually used. Furthermore, the w…

I’ve just tried upgrades on three of my most complex wikis (which are probably not very complex by others’ standards!) and found no backward incompatibilities. Everything simply seems to work fine. Two of them are behind corporate walls, but one I’ve been talking about a fair bit here: my periodic…

Thank you @etardiff for the very helpful feedback. [image] etardiff: Since the tiddler is contrasting macros with procedures/functions/custom widgets, this leads me to assume that the new macro alternatives do not have the same performance implications and/or are not imported in the same way. …

[image] Scott_Sauyet: I’ve just tried upgrades on three of my most complex wikis (which are probably not very complex by others’ standards!) and found no backward incompatibilities. Everything simply seems to work fine. Two of them are behind corporate walls, but one I’ve been talking about a fa…

[image] jeremyruston: Perhaps you could post a fuller example so that we can see what is going on? I’ll double-check when I’m at a computer, but I think I was probably just running into the issue with text input fields losing focus that’s already been reported and resolved. I was using an $ed…

Thanks @etardiff that’s good news.

I notice in the in the tiddler Variables usage there is not reference to the $(var)$ form in define macros. It should be added because it is part of them only remaining uses of macros. Otherwise my complements to all especialy @jeremyruston on the work put into this.

[image] TW_Tones: I notice in the in the tiddler Variables usage there is not reference to the $(var)$ form in define macros. Do you have a link? .. This form of variable substitution is deprecated and should not be used anymore. We should not promote it. I did write about it here in talk sev…

[image] pmario: Do you have a link? … This form of variable substitution is deprecated and should not be used anymore. We should not promote it. I did write about it here in talk several times already. @pmario to be clear, we have not yet deprecated textual substitution in macros. There are s…

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