I looked at the slicer-edition when it came out and it didn't quite suit my purposes. I am interesting in chopping up CFRs from eCFR.gov ... specifically the new beta site https://ecfr.federalregister.gov/ ... you can grab an entire part in a number of formats (including JSON) but I end up with a plain text tiddler. Conveniently, each section is uniquely named so it has been fairly simple to semi-manually parse using the excise function in the tiddler editor. It consists of four steps after importing the big text file into a tiddler: copy section title to clipboard, Highlight the whole section in editor, excise and paste the title to name the new tiddler.
If that could be reduced to a single step of dragging a highlighted section onto a sidebar area, that would be super-efficient. In my case, the tiddler title is always the first line of the section being dragged and always unique so I think this might be doable with some creative splitting. Like what was discussed in a previous thread, it might require the ability to trigger two sequential actions like you can with a button. But even if it requires a button press after to post-process the title, that is still much more efficient. I'll investigate when I have some time to dedicate. Thanks, /Mike On Friday, December 25, 2020 at 11:02:35 AM UTC-4 Mark S. wrote: > The Slicer Edition and NotoWritey can quickly slice up your text files, if > you want the whole thing processed. > > For this (I think I'll call it Excerpt) getting the source name might be > tricky. I'm thinking that the new EventCatcherWidget might be wrapped > around your text tiddlers as a template. Beginning a selection would then > put the current tiddler name into a tiddler which could then be used by > Excerpt for tagging and/or naming. > > On Thursday, December 24, 2020 at 9:39:40 PM UTC-8 [email protected] > wrote: > >> That is very cool. That kind of functionality will prove very useful in >> quickly tiddlywiking a big flat text file ... something I do a lot of ... >> very manually at the moment. >> >> I will have to study your 5.1.23-filter wizardry and figure out how to >> tag the newly created tiddler with the host tiddler and name it based on >> the highlighted content. >> >> Thanks for sharing a very practical example. >> /Mike >> >> On Thursday, December 24, 2020 at 6:55:34 PM UTC-4 Mark S. wrote: >> >>> >>> Now that 5.1.23 has come out, I've added this code to >>> https://marxsal.github.io/various/playground.html so people can try it >>> directly. >>> >>> -- 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/286cd223-dbec-438d-baca-ce7537a6c862n%40googlegroups.com.
