Changing the name of a Tiddler in TiddlyWiki and retain the references pointing to it

Question

I am new to TiddlyWiki and I am trying to make a webpage that I anticipate to edit later with some information changing. It would make sense to sometimes edit the name of some of the tiddlers, but if I do that I will lose the links pointing to it.

Is it possible to change the name of a tiddler and make all references pointing to it accordingly at the same time (without doing it manually)?

Answer 1

You can get something close to that with the TiddlerAliasPlugin (http://tiddlywiki.abego-software.de/Beta.html#TiddlerAliasPlugin), while only requiring a very small manual change. Namely you have to enter as an "Alias" the old title of the tiddler at the same time you change it. This will preserve all link functionality, but it will break tracking of backlinks through the "References" link.

To do otherwise (I am not a developer, only a TiddlyWiki user) would seemingly require some sort of search/replace within all tiddlers when renaming, and I don't think that's possible (I dunno about restoring backlink tracks with something like the MediaWiki redirect system though). It is possible to do that sort of search-and-replace within a tiddler's metadata, though: a plugin exists to rename tags, and will change them on all tagged tiddlers.

Answer 2

I think the answer is no, and for that kind of task I use a text editor like Notepad++, Geany or TextMate (for Windows, Linux and Mac respectively).

Also, I decided early on to use [[double brackets]] for tiddler links instead of relying on the WikiWord format, because it makes global replacements easier and safer.