I note when you quote something in talk.tiddlywiki there is sufficient information to find the source. eg [quote="Flibbles, post:7, topic:7718"], It is easy to copy this and paste it off line such as in a tiddlywiki, however I have not yet found how to search with is information, but we should be able build a parser that transforms the [quote= into a link, such as;
https://talk.tiddlywiki.org/t/is-there-a-small-filter-to-calculate-between-hoursseconds-in-three-fields-to-seconds-and-back/7718/7?u=Flibbles
- However you can see we are still missing the title.
However a quick test demonstrates the full title is not needed, for example this works
https://talk.tiddlywiki.org/t/dummy/7718/7
or
https://talk.tiddlywiki.org/t/dummy/7718/7?u=Flibbles
- I just used the word dummy and it resolves.
- Using the user works but is unnecessary.
Proposal
We look at providing a small plugin that allows use to take a talk.tiddlywiki quote and paste it into a regular tiddler, generate a link from the quote “header” display the user you are quoting, format the text in markdown (if installed else text) and make it look like a quote.
- To keep it simple we could just detect a line starting and ending
[quote= ]or[/quote]or just[ ]and it should not clash with other markup of filters/functions.
[quote="TW_Tones, post:5, topic:7718"]
content
[/quote]
- Although if we are designing this perhaps we can allow alternatives to
quote=that invoke a different “mime type”, template tiddler etc… so others can be built.
When you quote something it starts a new reply, in which you can also type a note to yourself, or add a search keyword (In TW Markup)
[quote="TW_Tones, post:5, topic:7718"]
These same “custom operators” could then be used to convert a unix time “period” you calculated into a human readable period eg “3 days 2 hours”.
[/quote]
My ''note''
- Copy and past into your tiddlywiki, Then you cancel the reply
Why?
talk.tiddlywiki is our formal forum software and with such integration we could keep worthy quotes off line in our own database and even copy and paste back to talk.tiddlywiki when you can help someone, no need to find the original thread.
- This may encourage other discourse users to adopt tiddlywiki