What's the tilde for?

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Corey Woodworth

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Oct 2, 2017, 11:35:48 AM10/2/17
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When downloading a new or empty tiddlywiki, the default tiddler's title has a ~ in it. "My ~TiddlyWiki" Is there any particular reason for the ~? Does it do anything to style or label the title that I'm unaware of? It's hard to search for ~ since it's too short a string to find in the documentation, so my efforts to find an answer manually have been fruitless.

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Oct 2, 2017, 11:41:56 AM10/2/17
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The tilde character is used to suppress the action of camel case automatically creating a link to another tiddler.

I.E. MyTiddler would create a link to a tiddler with the title "MyTiddler", even if no such tiddler yet exists. But ~MyTiddler would not.

Corey Woodworth

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Oct 2, 2017, 1:33:19 PM10/2/17
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Thank you, that makes perfect sense :)
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