Renaming tags (search and replace)

[Albertononi]

I have just created a tiddler that allows me to search and replace the name of my tags. It works with two steps:

1. It shows the tiddlers with the old "to-be-replaced" tags. With a checkbox, I can give them the new tags.
2. It shows the tiddlers with the old AND new tags. With a checkbox, I can remove the old tags.

I guess it could be done with a single step, but I'm not a programmer so I don't know how to do that. (I've tried and failed!)

The title of the tiddler is "RenameTags".
The old name is written in a field called: "search".
The new name is written in a field called: "replaceby".

This is the content of the tiddler:

|!Search tag: | {{!!search}} |
|!Replace by: | {{!!replaceby}} |

---

!First step
!!//Apply the new tag to the following tiddlers//
<$list filter="[!has[draft.of]tag{!!search}!tag{!!replaceby}sort[created]]">
<$checkbox tag={{RenameTags!!replaceby}}><$link to={{!!title}}><$view field="title"/></$link></$checkbox>
</$list>

!Second step
!!//Remove the old tag from the following tiddlers//
<$list filter="[!has[draft.of]tag{!!search}tag{!!replaceby}sort[created]]">
<$checkbox tag={{RenameTags!!search}}> ~~<$link to={{!!title}}><$view field="title"/></$link>~~</$checkbox>
</$list>

[Stephan Hradek]

I'm really flabbergasted!

That's really great stuff!

[Stephan Hradek]

There was a mistake in the first one I posted… So here is the real enhancement where you do not need to edit the tiddler to change the tags you want to search:

|!Search tag: | <$edit-text tiddler="$:/temp/RenameTags/search" tag="input" type="text"/> |
|!Replace by: | <$edit-text tiddler="$:/temp/RenameTags/replace" tag="input" type="text"/> |

---

!First step
!!//Apply the new tag to the following tiddlers//

<$list filter="[!has[draft.of]tag{$:/temp/RenameTags/search}!tag{$:/temp/RenameTags/replace}sort[created]]">
<$checkbox tag={{$:/temp/RenameTags/replace}}><$link to={{!!title}}><$view field="title"/></$link></$checkbox>

</$list>

!Second step
!!//Remove the old tag from the following tiddlers//

<$list filter="[!has[draft.of]tag{$:/temp/RenameTags/search}tag{$:/temp/RenameTags/replace}sort[created]]">
<$checkbox tag={{$:/temp/RenameTags/search}}> ~~<$link to={{!!title}}><$view field="title"/></$link>~~</$checkbox>
</$list>

[Stephan Hradek]

I hope it is okay for you that I included this great trick in my http://tw5magick.tiddlyspot.com collection.

[Jeremy Ruston]

HI Alberto

That is indeed very cool, I'm impressed at your ingenuity.

It's interesting that you describe yourself as a non-programmer: an important goal for TiddlyWiki is to lower the barriers to some of the things that developers can do easily and take for granted. My hope is that TiddlyWiki provides a rich enough set of primitives that it has some of the generative characteristics of a program, but feels less procedural to a user.

Many thanks,

Jeremy

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Stephan Hradek <stephan...@gmail.com> wrote:

I hope it is okay for you that I included this great trick in my http://tw5magick.tiddlyspot.com collection.

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[Albertononi]

@Stephan: I'm glad you found the trick useful and shared it with others.

@Jeremy: As a philosopher, my programming background is as low as the floor, but I enjoy very much using TW and tweaking what others do for my own use. Thank you very much for such a great piece of software!

I've uploaded my new TW5 to tiddlyspot: http://tesis.tiddlyspot.com/ so others can see and get ideas from it.

[Stephan Hradek]

This seems french to me ;)

Small tipp: Try in your "Définitions" tiddler this instead of putting a Level 3 header. Maybe you like it?

<$list filter="[tag[.définition]tag[Fonctions]sort[title]]">

<<< <$link to={{!!title}}><$view field="title"/></$link>

<$transclude/>
<<<
<hr></$list>

[Albertononi]

Danke schön Stephan! but I prefer to have the source of the definition more visible.

[Stephan Hradek]

Am Donnerstag, 16. Januar 2014 16:01:01 UTC+1 schrieb Albertononi:

Danke schön Stephan! but I prefer to have the source of the definition more visible.

That could be done with CSS tweaking. THe advantage is that the "cite" is also tagged as a <cite>.

[vpl]

Hi Guys 

Thanks a lot for this bunch of answers.

I've tested the solution on TW5 Magick and that works like a charm ..!

Thanks a l.ot

Regards

vpl

[Novbert]

It works like a charm! Thanks a lot for this!

I'm just wondering if the same could be done somehow for in-wiki links also.

[Gerald Strickland]

@Alberto Molina This is simply beautiful. Thank you!

[Captain Packers]

Slick. Thanks.

[Tobias Beer]

Hi Alberto,

 

I've uploaded my new TW5 to tiddlyspot: http://tesis.tiddlyspot.com/ so others can see and get ideas from it.

Did you develop the flavor yourself? ...let alone gather and read all the actual contents on top?

I love your wiki, it's quite interesting in all regards, TiddlyWiki or otherwise.

It's quite hilarious how an empty reference is displayed with lorem ipsum. ^_^

Best wishes, Tobias.

[Alberto Molina]

Hi Tobias,

Yes, I did it all myself, thanks to the community here.

Alberto

[Leopold Bloom]

I was able rename a bunch of tags today with your code (used the version from TW5 Magick). It was a trivial change - tag capitalisation. It would have been tedious to change each by hand. I thought the Tag Manager will be able to do this natively (v 5.1.14), but no luck and while searching for a solution, your post was the first hit. Thank you.

A question to others: Is this the best way to rename tags, any chance this feature coming to Tag Manager?

[PMario]

On Thursday, November 30, 2017 at 7:22:01 AM UTC+1, Leopold Bloom wrote:

I was able rename a bunch of tags today with your code (used the version from TW5 Magick). It was a trivial change - tag capitalisation. It would have been tedious to change each by hand. I thought the Tag Manager will be able to do this natively (v 5.1.14), but no luck and while searching for a solution, your post was the first hit. Thank you.

A question to others: Is this the best way to rename tags, any chance this feature coming to Tag Manager?

You may be interested in the tiddler manager: https://tiddlywiki.com/#%24%3A%2FManager 

It can do some more things.

have fun!
mario