Suggestion: Distraction-free editing

[Mark S.]

There's currently a way to put a tiddler in a separate window. It would be really great if you could also EDIT that window, so you could use it for distraction-free editing.

Thanks!
Mark

[Thomas Elmiger]

Hi Mark

May I suggest the following procedure after opening a tiddler in edit mode:
1. activate full screen mode
2. hide sidebar
optional: 3. hide preview

Could there be less distraction?

Have fun ;–)
Thomas

[PMario]

On Thursday, October 20, 2016 at 6:02:06 PM UTC+2, Mark S. wrote:

There's currently a way to put a tiddler in a separate window. It would be really great if you could also EDIT that window, so you could use it for distraction-free editing.

IMO that's an idea for a TW theme.
-m

[Mark S.]

I don't want TW in full-screen. Unfortunately, some distraction is usually required in order to copy and paste and reference other documents. I also want more than one tiddler. All of this could happen if one could edit as well as view a tiddler opened in it's own window.

Thanks,
Mark

[Jeremy Ruston]

Hi Mark

Mat has a thing called “side editor” that is designed to present a single tiddler in the sidebar for editing. There is a dropdown to choose which tiddler you are editing.

You should be able to use Mat’s thing in a separate window just by navigating to the corresponding tiddler and clicking “open in new window”.

Best wishes

Jeremy.

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[Josiah]

Ciao Mark & Jeremy

I fully agree that Mat's "Side Editor" is neat & might suit your needs. You need a bit of screen estate for it. Its very solid & reliable.

You can find it here: http://sideeditor.tiddlyspot.com/

Best wishes
Josiah

[Mark S.]

Thanks for the suggestion, Jeremy.

Unfortunately, when I click on "open new window", I get the rendered tiddler without controls, and the floating, editable text, stays with the main wiki. If the editable text were to float outside the browser, then that would be pretty much on target.

Thanks!
Mark

[Jeremy Ruston]

Hi Mark

OK, try creating a new tiddler and inserting this:

Tiddler: <$select tiddler="$:/state/side-edit-tiddler" tag="input">
<$list filter="[!is[system]sort[title]]">
<option value=<<currentTiddler>>><$text text=<<currentTiddler>>/></option>
</$list>
</$select>

<$tiddler tiddler={{$:/state/side-edit-tiddler}}>
<$transclude tiddler="$:/core/ui/EditTemplate"/>
</$tiddler>

Then open that tiddler in a new window.

That gives you the full TW editor in a separate window. If you’d rather just have the main body text editor, then substitute the following the last three lines above:

<div class="tc-tiddler-frame">
<$edit-text tiddler={{$:/state/side-edit-tiddler}} class="tc-edit-texteditor"/>
</div>

Do beware of editing a tiddler in the side window while also editing it in the main window.

Best wishes

Jeremy

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[Sylvain Naudin]

It's a nice tips !
I've some long tiddlers, and with this code, it will be fun/easier to edit content on my first screen and scrool to part edit and see result on second screen with regular wiki.

I vote to add this to wikibar or to more option to edit in new window :p

Thanks for sharing.
Sylvain

[Tobias Beer]

Hi Sylvain,

 

I vote to add this to wikibar or to more option to edit in new window :p

Yes and no.

1. It needs some polishing, but the general concept is gr8, especially for big screens or two monitors or an otherwise readOnly wiki
2. you should be able to search for the title you wish to edit
3. It shouldn't be necessary to open edit mode to click the editor toolbar just to get to a fullscreen edit mode window, but that could be one way to do it, sure
   

Best wishes,

Tobias.

[Sylvain Naudin]

Bonjour Tobias :)

Yes of course, I agree with you, it need more polishing (search, with or without wikibar, etc..)

If there is an edit-window on View Toolbar, there no need to select/search tiddler to edit.

[Mark S.]

Thanks Jeremy!

So far, especially the 2nd version, has been working well. The first version shows places where icons should be, but there's just little stubs. Hovering over the stubs you can see their original functions.

Currently, I could make a second tiddler if I wanted to open more than one tiddler this way at a time (imagine having various notes splayed around a project). I'm wondering if there is a way to make this like a template, so multiple tiddlers could be opened (without having to insert the code into each place-holder tiddler.

Thanks again!
Mark