Replacing string

[Sergey Shishkin]

All conventional editors have such an opportunity. Why it not in tiddliwiki?

This feature could be with different options:

• Only tags
  
• In title of tiddlers, including all the fields and links in the text of tiddlers, where there was an old to a new
  
• Everywhere (Is it possible to open the TID file in the usual editor and make contextual replacement? What happens?)
  

To work with hypertext it is so necessary. 

[RichardWilliamSmith]

Hi Sergey,

I agree that this is something to work towards. In my opinion (I'm not a developer, just a dabbler) it wouldn't be too hard to add the functionality, but it's the kind of operation that has quite a high chance of inadvertently breaking the wiki (by potentially changing lots of tiddlers and references all at once) unless it's done very carefully/cleverly - so then it probably becomes quite a challenging problem to think about (cue Jeremy).

Global search and replace in a normal editor will work, as long as you're sure that you're not going to change any of the code too (you can try your search term against a version of your wiki with no content in it, to make sure it doesn't find a hit)

Though I only think of it now, you should also be able to export all your tiddlers as a JSON file, do search and replace on that and then re-import it. That will probably work best.

Regards,

Richard

[Sergey Shishkin]

Hi Richard,

Thank you for the advice to be careful. I will not experiment with tiddliwiki in the usual editor. But I hope that at least two options above will be realized. It is very important when you rename tiddlers keep in mind that it acts as a link and manually change incorrectly in other tiddlers.

Regards,

Richard

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