I’ve been trying to improve my wikitext writing experience in TiddlyWiki.
Here’s my progress so far.
My web browser is Vivaldi on Linux, which is Chrome based just like Nw.js that TiddlyDesktop relies on.
I have installed the extension https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ghosttext/godiecgffnchndlihlpaajjcplehddca into Vivaldi and GitHub - subnut/nvim-ghost.nvim: 👻 GhostText plugin for Neovim with zero dependencies Supports neovim running inside WSL too! Windows/Linux/macOS supported out-of-the-box! (Other OSes need python3.6+ installed) plugin into Neovim. If I have Neovim running and open a web page in Vivaldi, if I right click on a textarea, the popup menu contains an “Activate GhostText on field” menu item. If I click on that, I get two-way sync of text between Neovim and Vivaldi.
I have added the GhostText extension to TiddlyDesktop by creating an extensions directory in the same location where the nw executable is, then copied the extension directory from Vivaldi as extensions/ghosttext.
After this I modified package.json to load the extension with TiddlyDesktop:
"chrome_extensions": [
{
"path": "./extensions/ghosttext"
}
]
TiddlyDesktop does not report any errors at startup, by which I conclude that the extension loads. But this is an assumption, because I don’t know how to check, I could not find any info about extensions in Developer tools.
The problem is that when I edit a tiddler and right mouse click on the textarea that contains the content of the tiddler text field, the popup menu of TiddlyDesktop does not contain the relevant GhostText menu item like the web browser. Is it possible to get it there, so integration between Neovim and TiddlyDesktop would work as well? I skimmed through the GitHub issues of TiddlyDesktop but could not find anything relevant.