Duarte, How do you specify the alias in chrome and/or FireFox. IF I understand correctly this can be entered in the address bar and the value following passed into the bookmark(lete) ?
Regards Tony On Monday, June 15, 2020 at 3:47:28 AM UTC+10, Duarte Farrajota Ramos wrote: > > The %s string is a common placeholder for search terms, not something you > would enter literally into the address bar. > Say you setup a Firefox bookmark with name My Wiki, address file: > ///D:/TiddlyWiki.html#:[!is[system]search[%s]] and alias wiki. > If you then type into the address bar the alias followed by a space then a > search term like say wiki personal notes it would then automatically > resolve the address and take you to file: > ///D:/TiddlyWiki.html#:[!is[system]search[personal notes]] . > > If you literally type file:///D:/TiddlyWiki.html#:[!is[system]search[%s]] > into the address bar it will apparently show a javascript error, if you > want to just type directly you would have to actually write > file:///D:/TiddlyWiki.html#:[!is[system]search[my > search terms]] manually. > > > > > On Sunday, 14 June 2020 06:36:24 UTC+1, A Gloom wrote: >> >> >> For the record if anyone else wants to know how, you can simply add to >> your browser something like >> >>> file:///D:/TiddlyWiki.html#:[!is[system]search[%s]] >>> and it will behave like any search engine. Works both for Chrome-alike >>> as from the search engine list, and for Firefox as a regular bookmark with >>> an alias. >>> >> >> :[!is[system]search[%s]] gave mw a Javascript error but useing a normal >> search term instead of % worked fine. >> >> An note to any one reading-- a lag before anythng displays is normal when >> using a filter in the permalink. >> >> >> This trick can also be used with Google docs and sheets (though not >> tested with a local wiki): >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tiddlywiki/dR8hVQYR2P8/QSLZB-HkDwAJ >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/f1c755f9-0c37-4884-b64f-4ba9370a5769o%40googlegroups.com.
