Virtually merging two tiddlers? Tiddler stacks and form of monkey patch

[Scott_Sauyet]

@TW_Tones

Ultimatly this idea of tiddler stacks is to pull the first field value from a given field in a “stack” of tiddlers. In other words given a set of tiddler titles get the first value with a given fieldname.

I asked a very similar question in #6175, eventually phrased like this:

We have a shadowing mechanism, allowing us to use our tiddler in place of another, even though that other one still exists and will be resurrected the minute our own is deleted. Could we do the same thing at the field level?

Jeremy explained that while this is an interesting idea, for some very good reasons, it could not possibly make it to the core.

I noted the following and then dropped the idea. One day I may still come back to it:

@Scott_Sauyet

That’s what I expected. But I think discussions here are making me realize that I could probably achieve what I hoped to by including deep versions of a few things: the get operator, the view widget, and field transclusions. There would probably be others, but I already know how to do the first two and could investigate the third.

Maybe there are enough differences in your current idea and that one that we could achieve it, but I’m doubtful, not without the sort of replacements I mentioned for some core constructs.