Hi, I did create the uni-link plugin. What was the problem to understand the plugin. It would be nice to get some feedback here or at GitHub so I do have the chance to improve it.
Have fun!
Mario
To get the link part working where it shows the caption if it is available, you have to go into the settings of the TiddlyWiki and select Caption (or one of the other options if you want). I didnât realize that at first.
This was further confused by my thought that I wanted to use an alias, so I thought the âAlias Link Syntaxâ would work, but we were thinking of two different uses of the term âaliasâ. I was thinking I wanted the link to show an alias when embedded in this article. The alias link syntax in your macro was relying on the alias field of other tiddlers.
That was my confusion. I wanted it to show an alias, but alias was a reserved keyword, so when it was talking about alias it wasnât talking about the type of aliasing I was looking for. Now that I get that, it works.
I have never used the alias field, by the way. I think I have found a place where I shouldâve, though. I set up an article about the âCounty of Daraâ. Well, currently, it is known as a Chiefdom or Tribe. So I created two more articles that simple {{include}} the main article. I guess what I shouldâve done was put those aliases in the alias field.
Thanks for the feedback. I will have a closer look
Thatâs kind of intentional. At a second thought, I shouldnât have implemented that functionality this way. Since the setting is global IMO itâs not flexible enough. Itâs an âallâ or ânothingâ behaviour.
Users should use the âalias formatâ [[alias|?c]] or [[alias|?caption]]. There is almost the same amount of chars, but itâs much more flexible and also more verbose. âŚ
If someone is new to a wiki that uses the global setting and they have a look at the wikitext, they see a link to the title, but a different âcaptionâ text is visible in view mode. Thatâs confusing. âŚ
Yes. Thatâs one of the reasons, why the uni-link plugin was created.
An other reason is, that aliases are not case sensitive. So you can change the way your write them. eg: At the start of a sentence use uppercase. In the middle use lowercase links.
Itâs been awhile since Iâve looked at uni-link. To me, what it seems to miss is the ability to quickly change the pretty link. I guess a syntax like
[[My Alias|?a|My newly displayed title]]
which would display:
My newly displayed title
Currently the only way I see to do this is to add your own custom field with a new pretty link text. But thatâs a bit tedious when all you want to do is to change how the link looks, not what it links to.
If youâre writing some sort of documentation, you could easily change the pretty link text a half dozen times before you settled on a final version.
Thanks for listening!
Thatâs an interesting idea. I think, it should be possible to create a link like this: [[alias|?|My newly displayed title]] ⌠It would be worth to make some experiments.
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I did review the issue - lists of my plugins and stumbled upon this request again. ⌠I think I found a format that will work very well. ⌠Not only for this request, but also for many more possibilities.
eg: [[alias-name||?t|My newly displayed link title]] ⌠where ?t ⌠the t would probably be user definable and could be any variable name that is available to the link and âMy ... titleâ would be the first parameter
At the moment the uni-link plugin is translated to a <$macrocall ... widget. In the future it should be possible to use a parameterised transclusion
The format is very closely related to the parameterised transclusion
{{title||template|param 1|param 2|param 3}}
So the function should be possible once TW v5.3.0 is available. More thoughts are on GitHub