Prevent "Prevent leave" / "You have unsaved changes"

Tips & Tricks
#1

https://openuserjs.org/scripts/linonetwo/Tiddlywiki_Prevent_Prevent_Leave

I found some Tiddlywiki websites are annoying when they try to catch me and prevent me to leave them. Even they are just documentation website, that I may modify something, and don’t want to save them at all.

I developed Prevent Edit plugin for plugin developers, but seems no many plugin developers install it in their website.

So I have to hunt it down on my side. With this user script, I can force those website to close now!

#2

I can see that it might be useful to some. But for me, the opposite problem is much more likely: I accidentally ignore an unsaved wiki prompt and lose data, so I live with the minor annoyance of the popup that’s not usually necessary.

#3

You can ignore you own wiki’s url when using user script.

I only use TidGi Desktop app and Mobile App, so it is fine for me.

#4

Well, my own wikis are almost always served over Node with autosave, or publicly on GitHub pages, often in read-only mode. It’s when I’m playing with wikis from other people that I run into this issue. It happened just the other day. I was playing with the new Geospatial plugin, just using the demo page as a testbed. But my computer decided then when I told it to go into hibernation, I really meant for it to reboot, and when I came back, that work was lost. It wasn’t a big deal, and if I really wanted to recreate it, I probably could, but that’s the sort of scenario that I run into.

#5

Please see the attached, it is a transportable bookmarklet in a tiddler.

  • Import it to any wiki
  • look inside to see its javascript payload in javascript-function the (For your safety)
  • Drag Reset Dirty link to your bookmarklets.
    • if you keep this tiddler in your wiki, you can also click it in the tiddler for the same effect.
  • Click to reset the dirty indicator on any wiki
    • Further changes will set dirty again

Reset Dirty save status.json (919 Bytes)

To find in the future visit https://bookmarklets.tiddlyhost.com/ and see Bookmarklets sidebar

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