EditButtons plugin (and others) updated for TW 5.1.22

[Thomas Elmiger]

Hi folks,

Many, many thanks to Mat for pushing me a bit to a) fix one of my plugins for TW 5.1.22 and b) to officially launch it to the public through this group.

The EditButtons plugin makes editing more efficient by adding three buttons to the edit toolbar:

• Cancel & Close (Discard & Close)
• Save & Close (Done & Close)
• Save & Keep Open (Done & Reopen)
  

Originally inspired by Josiah and Richard William Smith. (See Discussion in the Google Group.) – Now flourishing with improved design (4 variants to choose from, so there should be something for every taste and most existing designs or at least a starter CSS you can improve yourself) and a new settings tab to configure your edit toolbar. Even more thanks to Mat for the inspiration and the testing – it was a real joy to work with you!

This little gem is still under 25 kilobytes and has no dependencies. You can get it on my all new Plugins website:

https://tid.li/tw5/plugins.html.

Why should you use EditButtons?

The button I use all the time myself is Save & Keep Open. Especially useful while working in a single page wiki to make sure your works are saved while you are not finished yet. Also for testing new developments like CSS or macros while you have finished parts only or want to be sure everything is fine, before you Save & Close. The last one is for bad ideas: When you think you should add something to a tiddler and then realize you better leave it as it is and throw the bad idea away or note it in another tiddler. Then you can Cancel & Close. If you never have such bad ideas you can remove the button from the edit toolbar.

Where are the other Plugins?

My other plugins – older/not yet updated – are still available: Visit https://tid.li/tw5/plugins-2019.html to check them out. Most of them will be updated and moved over to the location above when I find the time. Suggestions for improvements are always welcome but might take some time to consider and/or implement.

Thanks for reading & all the best,

Thomas

[Mat]

This is one of those things that at first makes you think "Hm, OK, I guess that's neat like, say, how icons or some shortcut can be useful every now and then" ...but after a while you realize that you use this ALL THE TIME so it is actuall a pretty big deal. I have used this in every wiki and every day since you released it some years back. 

Thank you Thomas.

<:-)

[h0p3]

Yes. I'm grateful for this plugin too. I use it every day. Thank you. 

[springer]

Though Thomas' use case (suddenly realizing one had a bad edit idea) is funnier, the "discard changes and close tiddler" button also gets lots of use, for me, when my only purpose in opening up a tiddler is to grab some bit of code from within. Recommended!

-Springer

On Wednesday, May 27, 2020 at 4:18:34 PM UTC-4, Thomas Elmiger wrote:

...

The EditButtons plugin makes editing more efficient by adding three buttons to the edit toolbar:

• Cancel & Close (Discard & Close)

• ... [This] last one is for bad ideas: When you think you should add something to a tiddler and then realize you better leave it as it is and throw the bad idea away or note it in another tiddler. Then you can Cancel & Close. If you never have such bad ideas you can remove the button from the edit toolbar.

[Thomas Elmiger]

Haha, thank you, springer, for bringing up another great use case!

And thanks to Mat and h0p3 too for using and recommending EditButtons.