Re: MonkeyGTD bug - vertical bracket in title field

[Daniel Baird]

This sounds like it might be a TiddlyWiki bug (or a bug in
ForEachTiddler), so I'm forwarding to the TW list.

Doug, if you're not on the TW list you might like to stop by the
google groups page to see what happens.

http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki

;Daniel

On 9/8/06, Doug Edmunds <being...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> If you've tried d3, you see that 'actions' either show the related
> @context or the related project, depending on the view.
>
> I am trying to figure out how to show the project associated with each
> 'next action' in the list that appears in the MonkeyGTD dashboard. In
> the process I stumbled onto this bug:
>
> If a vertical bar | (that key above the backslash) is put in the
> title, the action is no longer accessible (except through search). The
> program treats it like an 'external link'. The same thing happens if
> square brackets are put in the title bar.
>
> Example.
>
> 1. Create a tiddler with the title "vertical bar bug") and give
> it tags "Next Task @Work" , so it shows up in the dashboard
>
> 2. Now edit the title. Add a vertical bar and something after it,
> like "vertical bar bug | @Work". Save and close it.
>
> It becomes an external link, and you no longer can open the links to
> it on the dashboard. The only way I have found to get the item open is
> thru
> Search. Fortunately, even though the title gets converted to an
> external
> link, any data in the tiddler isn't lost.
>
> --dae
>
>
> >
>

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[Udo Borkowski]

Some characters are not allowed as Tiddler titles (even though this is not stated anywhere explicitly).

This includes the vertical bar |, but also the "]" (and I assume the "["). This is mainly related to the way a tiddler can be referenced through the "pretty link" syntax:

    [[some tiddler title]]

If  a title contains a | this will look like

    [[some tiddler title with a | vertical bar]]

making it the "second form" of the pretty link: the part before the | is taken as the label for the link and the part behind it (" vertical bar") as the tiddler title/external link. (Similar problem with a title like "the ]] in a title")

Currently there is no way to "escape" these special characters.

I created a ticket (http://trac.tiddlywiki.org/tiddlywiki/ticket/161) to handle this issue.


Udo

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