My question is how to highlight strings in the text field of an input tiddler

#1

Hello

My question is how to highlight strings from the text field of an input tiddler
as the first step in previewing the potential changes for a search/replace utility.

The primary use case is to highlight/replace keywords in macro definitions.

The steps are

  • count the number of matches and echo the input parms
  • generate the outputText (with highlighting applied to searchString matches (not rendered)
  • render the outputText showing the highlighted string

The first two steps work as expected.
The last step works intermittently at best.

Steve

Here is the output showing

  • the match count and input parameters
  • the output text with highlighting applied to searchString matches
  • the output text as rendered

formatTid.highlightString.png

formatTid.highlightString
formatTid.highlightString697×1045 113 KB

Here is the code

exampleOutput
exampleOutput615×648 38.2 KB

#2

Oops! I found a link to an earlier version of this question from 2020 which I managed to lose track of.
I will give that a try - it worked before

See ttps://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/93917d0d-97f3-4182-b5dc-b6cbf810246co%40googlegroups.com.

#3

It kind of looks like you’re trying to do something similar to the official Dynannotate plugin.

#4

Hi Mark_S

You are probably correct.

I looked in https://tiddlywiki.com/ to read the description of the Dynannote plugin. The plugin was mentioned in several of the recent release notes but I was unable to find any specific descriptions.

Where should I be looking?

THanks

#5

TiddlyWiki control panel > plugins > Get More Pluggins

Dynnanote is in the list

#6

I found it - thanks!