Feature Request : add create tiddler function if 0 result searching

[silvyn]

​Hello,

I don't know if this had ever discuss, but today I would like to have a link or button under search result in sidebar, which can propose me to create tiddler if the result is empty.

(before creating new tiddler, I check if I already have an entry whith the same content).

I think that will be in core.
What do you think ?

[sukima]

I love the idea, I've often thought about the same thing.

[sukima]

I think the line that drives the title is at core/modules/widgets/navigator.js:429

[Jermolene]

I don't think this would need any JS mods; just a new tiddler button that uses the content of $:/temp/search as the tiddler title, and perhaps only reveals itself if the field is not empty. It could be added to the page controls toolbar.

[pmario]

hmm. If the search result field is empty. right?

[pmario]

I did experiment with the <$keyboard> widget, eg: ctrl+shift+enter could trigger an action-widget event. .. but imo the <$keyboard> widget can't trigger a button event. ... At least I couldn't get it to work properly :/

[Jermolene]

We should definitely extend the keyboard widget to support action widgets. I think it would open the door to a few interesting shortcuts.

[Jermolene]

Just to be clear, we're now talking about two different solutions:

• A button, built on the existing core
• A keyboard shortcut, requiring an update to the keyboard widget

[sukima]

Should there be another ticket cut for the second line item?

[Jermolene]

Yes, please :)

[danielo515]

In my opinion this feature already existed , and we "bugfixed" it. Do you remember when the search widget returned a link to the searched term? If you clicked on it, you were asked for creating that tiddler.

[sukima]

@danielo515 can you elaborate? I don't see any thing close to that at tiddlywiki.com's search results. Clicking the search icon opens the "Advanced Search" tiddler and clicking the plus button opens a "New Tiddler".

[danielo515]

Hello @sukima

As I said, it is not in place anymore. It was on previous versions of TW. Try making a search on 5.1.5 for example. You will get a link to a non existing tiddler.

[pmario]

@silvyn ... I did create a little plugin: https://wikilabs.github.io/editions/new-tiddler-from-search/

Please test and close the issue if you are OK.

If not, please respond too!

[silvyn]

Hi @pmario and thanks for this proposal.
It's interesting, and I can do work with that.
Maybe the tag fields is not necessary here (or if we could use auto-completion it will be better, but not so simple, so I think I'll disable it to be sure of name tag (or just ignore it).

[pmario]

If the plugin is OK for you, you should close the issue.