Taking a Tiddler and seeing what link text was used to link to it for consistency?

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leeand00

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Sep 24, 2020, 3:11:17 PM9/24/20
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If I have many tiddlers in my tiddlywiki that reference a tiddler, I am able to see which ones in the references, but I'm interesting in seeing what the link text for the link to that tiddler is.

Is there a way to find this out?

TW Tones

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Sep 24, 2020, 7:01:08 PM9/24/20
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What do you mean by link text?

Do you mean the content of the tiddler (it's text field?)

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Eric Shulman

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Sep 24, 2020, 7:28:33 PM9/24/20
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On Thursday, September 24, 2020 at 12:11:17 PM UTC-7, leeand00 wrote:
If I have many tiddlers in my tiddlywiki that reference a tiddler, I am able to see which ones in the references, but I'm interesting in seeing what the link text for the link to that tiddler is.
Is there a way to find this out?

A tiddler link can be created using the $link widget:
<$link to="tiddlername">text</$link>
or wikitext syntax:
[[text|tiddlername]]

When using the $link widget, the content inside the widget can be anything (except another $link widget!).  This can include references to variables, transcluded text, inline filters, or anything else you can imagine... even complex blocks of syntax like $list widgets, $reveal widgets, etc.  In addition, the to="tiddlername" parameter can also be "soft", where the value is generated by reference to a variable, transclusion from a field value, or constructed dynamically using an inline filter.  Furthermore, the to=... parameter can be completely omitted if the link is to the <<currentTiddler>> (e.g., a $link widget contained within the content of a $list), and you can also omit the $link content entirely when the display text is the same as the $link target.
<$link to="tiddlername" /> or <$link />

Thus, there are a multitude of different ways that the display text for a link can be specified, generated, or omitted, making it (nearly) impossible to derive all the different bits of display text that may be used to render a link, even if you know the actual tiddlername being linked to.

Sorry I can't offer a solution, but hopefully the above explanation illustrates why this is so.

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PMario

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Sep 25, 2020, 4:15:10 AM9/25/20
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Hi,
The relink plugin has its own backlinks tab in the tiddler info area. It will show you how the link looks like.
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