RESOLVED - iscript-... target? A way to add more control where expansions are inserted

[ironfroggy]

Currently, the three ways to craft link-trigger inline scripts are:

• iscript to do the expansion in-place repeatedly.
• iscript-once to do the expansion in-place once, permanently.
• iscript-append to add the expansion to the very end of the note... no matter how large the note is or how many different links you might have running inline scripts.

I propose two new options to control where in a note the expansion is added with a bit more nuance.

• iscript-before: d20 | Roll a d20! to insert the results before the link.
• iscript-after: d20 | Roll a d20! to insert the results after this link rather than after the contents of the entire note

AND, also a proposed option to all of these to control the target of where the insert happens in relation to. For example, to make an inline script link that appends to a specific list on a page, or even to the top of the list.

• script ^roll-result: d6 | Roll 6! to replace the block identified as ^roll-result in the current note. This would replace the block contents but keep the identifier on it.
• script-append ^todo-list: new-todo would add a new item to a list in the section ^todo-list
• etc.

[jon-heard]

I like these ideas a lot, and will add them to the next release. I honestly haven't worked with the ^id system much, but I'll look into it.

One clarification:
"iscript-before" seems pretty straight forward, but "iscript-after" has a subtle distinction that I want to discuss.
Do the results get appended directly after the link, or are they appended to the block of it's output? The second seems more intuitive, but would require remembering the ending block, which is a non-trivial matter. Here's an example of each scenario:

1. `iscript-after: ...` {next output position} output-3 output-2 output-1
2. `iscript-after: ...` output-1 output-2 output-3 {next output position}

If the second is preferred (which, again, makes sense) then one solution would be: on the first click of "iscript-after", an ^id is added to the next output position, and the "iscript-after" link is replaced with "iscript-append ^id".
This might not be the only solution, but it's the only one that comes to my mind.

If you have further thoughts on this then I'd love to hear them.

[jon-heard]

FYI, the next release is out and includes block-ids in shortcut links. I opted not to do the "iscript-before" and iscript-after" because I figured you could create this effect with block-ids easily enough.