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Originally Posted by chaley

PS: I am thinking about adding "return" to the template language, which would allow the above template to be written

That would be useful addition.

Originally Posted by chaley

On the plus side: in addition to checking for individual book vars, your suggestion has the advantage of being able to ask about more than one variable at once, as in

This is what I had in mind when thinking about this. The prefix thing is another good use for this.

Originally Posted by chaley

Another topic: while playing with actions today I noticed that some of the template dialogs, for example the Template Scope one, have extra fields related to stored templates, specifically the template name and the documentation. I am changing TemplateDialog to permit you to hide them.

With the changed TemplateDialog I tested this in Action Chains.templates.py and it works. Starting at line 404:

        TemplateDialog.__init__(self,
                                parent,
                                text,
                                mi=mi,
                                text_is_placeholder=text_is_placeholder,
                                all_functions=self.all_functions,
                                builtin_functions=builtin_functions,
                                global_vars=global_vars)
        self.setup_saved_template_editor(show_buttonbox=not dialog_is_st_editor,
                                         show_doc_and_name=False)

I will let you know when the changes are in calibre source.

Yes, would make it a lot better and less confusing. Will be waiting for the changes.