REQUEST - We need a suffix line param to work with the prefix param

[David Gifford]

In this thread, Anne-Laure Le Cunff requested a way to format paragraphs when importing from other programs.

The ideal would be an editortoolbar button that prefixes each line with <p>* and suffixes each line with </p>

I discovered that you can prefix lines okay (eg bulleted lists), but you can't suffix lists. The wrap-lines param only wraps the entire selection, not each individual line.

Would there be a way to create a new param and a button that does both actions together?

[TonyM]

David,

I believe this is already possible. Let me check, but also see my new solution https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/tiddlywiki/tXYXdvk3VXI

Regards

Tony

[Mark S.]

It kind of seems like "wrap-lines" is broken. Otherwise, what is the difference between it and "wrap-selection" ?

[TonyM]

David/Mark,

It seems broken as Mark says, but I though there was a fix, or a workaround I cant find.

As you know the editor toolbar button for bullets prefixes each line

The following is in $:/core/ui/EditorToolbar/list-bullet

<$action-sendmessage
 $message="tm-edit-text-operation"
 $param="prefix-lines"
 character="*"
 count="1"
/>

And others like the monospace 

$:/core/ui/EditorToolbar/mono-block

<$action-sendmessage
 $message="tm-edit-text-operation"
 $param="wrap-lines"
 prefix="
```"
 suffix="```"
/>

The above are using the message tm-edit-text-operation

Now here is the rub, I was confident there is away to implement prefix and suffix on each line, perhaps in a pre-release? Perhaps a hack or is it a false memory?

• You can add more than one action in an editor toolbar button, but I can't see the missing function you mention.
• A line suffix is replacing newline with something newline

I am currently playing with [all[current]get[text]splitregexp[\n]] for an answer.

Regards

Tony

[PMario]

On Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at 3:22:04 AM UTC+2, David Gifford wrote:

In this thread, Anne-Laure Le Cunff requested a way to format paragraphs when importing from other programs.

The ideal would be an editortoolbar button that prefixes each line with <p>* and suffixes each line with </p>

hmmm,

If you are able to position the cursor in the right position and hit a button, IMO it would be easier to position the cursor and hit the [Enter] key 2 times.

Done.

Just a thought.

-m

[Mark S.]

Not getting this. Imagine you have dozens of long lines. If you have to format them to human-readable text, you'd like to do it in a single step.

Besides, shouldn't "wrap-lines" do something different than "wrap-selection" ??