@jeremyruston thanks that plugin $:/plugins/tiddlywiki/tw5.com-docs is a useful step to what I need.
- However there are a few tiddlers I don’t want within that package such as $:/StoryList $:/DefaultTiddlers $:/favicon.ico $:/SiteSubtitle $:/SiteTitle $:/SplashScreen etc…
Re your notes:
- By the way I have already investigated many of the ideas in your notes of my own accord, and have working solutions. I can provide more information if you are proceeding with some of this, or interested.
- However it does not introduce the mechanism I am looking for which would;
- Allow us to avoid editing the existing documentation tiddlers.
- Let us leverage the mechanism in other use cases, content sharing and plugins.
- This would solve the documents issue, but then changes may be quite comprehensive given we need to add
[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[...on all lists. - My called for mechanism, would eliminate this requirement.
I can see from your notes, you are thinking about placing documentation “to one side as a reference”. For me I want to keep them visible in the user namespace, in fact I want to treat all the subtiddlers in a plugin as if they were tiddlers, without overriding them.
Can you envisage a mechanism that could allow us to nominate plugin(s) by filter and have its subtiddlers appear as tiddlers?
- perhaps a method by which a filter can include shadows in the group we would call tiddlers?
A way to make such a mechanism?
On reflection it may be possible to achieve what I am after by changing the is, all and default filter operators, to include these shadows as tiddlers.
- With the help of others, I recently successfully hacked tiddlywiki, to classify other title prefixes as
is[system]which is similar. Effectively to create new system namespaces. - The mechanism I am now looking for, is possibly it’s complement, to bring selected shadow tiddlers into the non-shadow “tiddlers” set.
Actually I would love to discuss what I have found in this exploration. We could for example use a separate namespace for documentation tiddlers and flick a switch to toggle them between being system, or non-system tiddlers, thus which lists there appear in etc…
- If we had a way to also switch a set of titles from belonging “in the shadows” to being “in the tiddlers set”, it could be very useful, for example;
- to make plugins and their subtiddlers instantly searchable in the standard search.
- To nominate system tiddlers such as $:/ControlPanel and $:/AdvancedSearch to come forward into the group of “tiddlers”.
- If we do this we can use the project name “Out of the shadows”
