{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/2269","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/2269/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/2269/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/2269/events","html_url":"https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/2269","id":131302555,"number":2269,"title":"Feature request: \"Slice out segment\" tool","user":{"login":"twMat","id":4534056,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4534056?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/twMat","html_url":"https://github.com/twMat","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/twMat/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/twMat/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/twMat/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/twMat/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/twMat/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/twMat/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/twMat/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/twMat/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/twMat/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2016-02-04T10:21:19Z","updated_at":"2016-02-04T10:21:19Z","closed_at":null,"body":"This is a proposal for a \"different route\" than the [text slicer](http://tiddlywiki.com/editions/text-slicer/index.html) edition, to insert complex documents into a TW.\r\n\r\n**Proposal**\r\nA tool that lets a user (easily) select a text segment in a longer text or code and *slice it out* so it becomes a separate tiddler. Ideally the tool is usable from both view mode and edit mode.\r\n\r\nThe original location might thereafter show a transclusion of the new tiddler or a link to it or similar. That is a topic for another issue.\r\n\r\n**The problem** is at least two-dimensional:\r\n\r\n* It is unfortunate, if not even patronizing, to *force* users to chunk up longer docs in order for TW to be useful.\r\n* What constitutes a \"smallest meaningful chunk\" depends on context. Forcing the user to chunk up even forces him to chunk it up into pieces where he does not know if they are meaningful at all! \r\n\r\nIn some situations, a long complex document can be all that is needed - but it should be super simple to slice out arbitrary segments in this into separate tiddlers **on a need basis**. We simply lack a good *\"cut out and tiddlify this section\"*-tool for this.\r\n\r\n**Side note**\r\nIt can even be argued if the core or tw.com really sticks to tiddler philosophy; For example, the typical stylesheet is definitely one complex single tiddler. And the edit view of most documentation consists of several \"chunks\" that do different things (a text chunk, a filter chunk, ...)\r\n<br>\r\n\r\n**P.S** I would prefer to title this thread *Feature request: \"__Tiddlify__ segment\" tool*, because to me *tiddlify* sounds like it means \"turning something into a tiddler\". Is this appropriate or does *tiddlify* really mean something else?"}}