Extracting shadow tiddlers to a different subfolder to ease content tiddlers versioning.

repository/TiddlyWiki/TiddlyWiki.class.st

@@ -95,20 +95,22 @@ TiddlyWiki >> exportJSONSubtiddlers: subtiddlersCollection [
 
 { #category : #accessing }
 TiddlyWiki >> exportSTONFiles [
+
 	| stonFile wikiTemp shadowFile |
-	self tiddlersJSONFile 
+	self tiddlersJSONFile
 		ifNil: [ 
-			self inform: 'No JSON Tiddlers file found. If you have one, please provide its location'.
+			self inform:
+				'No JSON Tiddlers file found. If you have one, please provide its location'.
 			stonFile := FileLocator temp / 'tiddlers.ston' ]
-		ifNotNil: [ stonFile := self tiddlersJSONFile withoutExtension, 'ston' ].
+		ifNotNil: [ 
-	shadowFile := self file parent / 'tiddlers' / '_shadow.ston'.
+		stonFile := self tiddlersJSONFile withoutExtension , 'ston' ].
+	shadowFile := self shadowsFolder / '_shadow.ston'.
 	wikiTemp := self copy.
 	wikiTemp tiddlers: self contentTiddlers.
 	wikiTemp := wikiTemp withoutImages.
 	wikiTemp := wikiTemp withoutPDFs.
 	GrafoscopioUtils exportAsSton: self shadow on: shadowFile.
 	^ GrafoscopioUtils exportAsSton: wikiTemp on: stonFile
-
 ]
 
 { #category : #accessing }
@@ -256,7 +258,20 @@ TiddlyWiki >> remote: aUrlString [
 
 { #category : #accessing }
 TiddlyWiki >> shadow [
- ^ self tiddlers select: [:tiddler | tiddler title beginsWith: '$:/']
+	"Shadow tiddlers are tiddlers that are loaded from plugins.
+	For more information about them, see:
+	
+	- https://tiddlywiki.com/static/ShadowTiddlers.html
+	- https://groups.google.com/g/TiddlyWiki/c/HuyZmaRJTxI"
+ 	^ self tiddlers select: [:tiddler | tiddler title beginsWith: '$:/']
+]
+
+{ #category : #accessing }
+TiddlyWiki >> shadowsFolder [
+	"I store all shadow tiddlers, i.e. tiddlers that provide functionality to TiddlyWiki,
+	for example the ones that come in the plugins or in system tiddlers.
+	For more information about shadow tiddlers, see #shadow method."
+	^ self file parent / 'shadow'
 ]
 
 { #category : #accessing }