filter expression for text??

[HC Haase]

this is driving me crazy. so simple request but so hard to get working.

I have many tiddlers whit the same snippet of text, I want to find them and give them a tag (using the bachmanipulator or Batch search and replace field contents plugin).

in the standard search you can search in tiddler text whitout it having to be a exact match. How do I do that with a filter?? I want to find tiddlers that have a snippet of text (but maybe other text) and do not have tag x.

thanks

[TonyM]

HC,

Its late here (Sydney) so I can only give some quick tips.

At tiddlywiki.com search for filter operators and have a look at the search operator and if your game using regex.

Also remember you can next $list widgets so the outercould search for tiddlers with text and the inner could filter out those without your desired tag so you apply two different filters.

<$list
<$list

</$list>
</$list>

When you are more expierenced you may be able to combine them into a single filter.

Eg [[first filter]] -[tag[tagname]

I hope this helps
Tony

[Diego Mesa]

I think searching needs a huge overhall in TW!!! 

[Mark S.]

It sounds like you want the search operator (https://tiddlywiki.com/#search%20Operator)

like ...search:text[MYSEARCHTEXT]...

-- Mark

[HC Haase]

@Mark S
thanks that worked. As this is a quite a basic search, but useful with other filters (not only i the standard search) I think this should at least be included in the drop-down suggestions in the filer search. This operator was unknown to me despite I have used TW5 for years.

@Diego Mesa
I agree... or at least make it very easy for the average Joe to do some search and filtering (e.g. the drop-down filter suggestions).

[Eric Shulman]

On Thursday, May 3, 2018 at 12:02:41 AM UTC-7, HC Haase wrote:

@Mark S
thanks that worked. As this is a quite a basic search, but useful with other filters (not only i the standard search) I think this should at least be included in the drop-down suggestions in the filer search. This operator was unknown to me despite I have used TW5 for years.

To add your own filters to the drop-down:

1) Create a new tiddler (e.g. "SomeName") tagged with "$:/tags/Filter"

2) add a "description" field containing "My Filter")

3) add a "filter" field containing "[search:text[MYSEARCHTEXT]]")

4) add a "list-before" field (leave it with a blank value)

The tag indicates that this is an entry for the filter drop-down.

The description is the text that appears in the drop-down.

The filter is the text to insert into the filter input field when the drop-down item is selected

The list-before field (with NO value) forces your custom filter to the top of the list (otherwise it would be at the end of the list)

enjoy,

-e

Eric Shulman

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