Space lua/queries not working

v2: Troubleshooting
1

I’ve migrated from v1 to v2 and I’m trying to replace my old queries but whenever I add something inside of ${this} it highlights the syntax but never actually turns into something. Am I doing something wrong? Is there something additional I need to do to get this to work?

Here are the ones I’ve tried so far, and they just show up as plain (but syntax highlighted) text:

${widgets.commandButton("System: Reload")}

${query[[
  from page
  where table.includes(tags, “utilities”)
]]}
2

Obvious question: are you actually running v2? What does Client: Version tell you? And, anything of interest in your browser’s JavaScript console?

3

“You are currently running SilverBullet 2.3.0-0-g21ddcb46”

Console says:

[Client] Booting SilverBullet client
client.js?v=cache-1763977725007:29 [Client] Boot config {spaceFolderPath: '/space', indexPage: 'index', readOnly: false, logPush: false, enableClientEncryption: false, …} {index: {…}, actionButtons: Array(3), plugs: {…}}
client.js?v=cache-1763977725007:29 [Client] Service worker registered...
service_worker.js:2 [Service Worker] Service worker already configured, just updating configs
service_worker.js:2 [Service Worker] [sync] Updated sync config: {syncDocuments: false, syncIgnore: ''}
client.js?v=cache-1763977725007:29 [Client] Using IndexedDB database sb_data_8ab93d7d371d783ebba7ea87c2979bf7e3f3507c1787d8d14c8a4c6fcd2664bc
client.js?v=cache-1763977725007:29 [Client] (Re)loading plugs
client.js?v=cache-1763977725007:29 [Client] All plugs (9) [{…}, {…}, {…}, {…}, {…}, {…}, {…}, {…}, {…}]0: {name: 'Library/Std/Plugs/core.plug.js', created: 1763977747000, lastModified: 1763977747000, contentType: 'text/javascript; charset=utf-8', size: 4487, …}1: {name: 'Library/Std/Plugs/editor.plug.js', created: 1763977747000, lastModified: 1763977747000, contentType: 'text/javascript; charset=utf-8', size: 35457, …}2: {name: 'Library/Std/Plugs/emoji.plug.js', created: 1763977747000, lastModified: 1763977747000, contentType: 'text/javascript; charset=utf-8', size: 283466, …}3: {name: 'Library/Std/Plugs/image-viewer.plug.js', created: 1763977747000, lastModified: 1763977747000, contentType: 'text/javascript; charset=utf-8', size: 22223, …}4: {name: 'Library/Std/Plugs/index.plug.js', created: 1763977747000, lastModified: 1763977747000, contentType: 'text/javascript; charset=utf-8', size: 46249, …}5: {name: 'Library/Std/Plugs/plug-manager.plug.js', created: 1763977747000, lastModified: 1763977747000, contentType: 'text/javascript; charset=utf-8', size: 13344, …}6: {name: 'Library/Std/Plugs/search.plug.js', created: 1763977747000, lastModified: 1763977747000, contentType: 'text/javascript; charset=utf-8', size: 8459, …}7: {name: 'Library/Std/Plugs/sync.plug.js', created: 1763977747000, lastModified: 1763977747000, contentType: 'text/javascript; charset=utf-8', size: 10288, …}8: {name: 'Library/Std/Plugs/tasks.plug.js', created: 1763977747000, lastModified: 1763977747000, contentType: 'text/javascript; charset=utf-8', size: 24937, …}length: 9[[Prototype]]: Array(0)
client.js?v=cache-1763977725007:29 [Client] Activated plug core
client.js?v=cache-1763977725007:29 [Client] Activated plug editor
client.js?v=cache-1763977725007:29 [Client] Activated plug emoji
client.js?v=cache-1763977725007:29 [Client] Activated plug image-viewer
client.js?v=cache-1763977725007:29 [Client] Activated plug index
client.js?v=cache-1763977725007:29 [Client] Activated plug plug-manager
client.js?v=cache-1763977725007:29 [Client] Activated plug search
client.js?v=cache-1763977725007:29 [Client] Activated plug sync
client.js?v=cache-1763977725007:29 [Client] Activated plug tasks
client.js?v=cache-1763977725007:29 [Client] Not loading space scripts, since initial indexing has not completed yet
client.js?v=cache-1763977725007:29 [Client] Now navigating to index
client.js?v=cache-1763977725007:29 [Client] Focusing editor
client.js?v=cache-1763977725007:29 [Client] Loading snapshot and enabling events
client.js?v=cache-1763977725007:29 [Client] Booting up worker from /.fs/Library/Std/Plugs/editor.plug.js
client.js?v=cache-1763977725007:29 [Client] Updating page list cache
client.js?v=cache-1763977725007:29 [Client] Updating document list cache
client.js?v=cache-1763977725007:29 [Client] Booting up worker from /.fs/Library/Std/Plugs/index.plug.js
client.js?v=cache-1763977725007:29 [Client] Initial sync not complete or index plug not loaded. Fetching page list directly using space.fetchPageList().
client.js?v=cache-1763977725007:29 [Client] alreadyFetching is on, skipping even triggering for fetchFileList.
4

Two rookie mistakes:

  1. Instead of using left and right double quotation marks (“ ”), you should use " - Straight double quotes.
  2. you should also add index.tag "page" instead of only from page

Here is the corrected lua query:

${query[[
  from index.tag "page"
  where table.includes(tags, "utilities")
]]}

Here is also an exhaustive list (Thanks ChatGPT) with the different quotation characters, and where are they usually used:

Quote Name Typical Usage
" Straight double quote Programming, plain text, typewriter legacy
' Straight single quote / apostrophe Programming, contractions, measurements (informal)
“ Left double quotation mark Opening quotation in proper typography
” Right double quotation mark Closing quotation in proper typography
‘ Left single quotation mark Opening single quote, nested quotations
’ Right single quotation mark Closing single quote, apostrophes in typography
` Backtick / grave accent Code, Markdown, shell commands, template literals
′ Prime Minutes, feet, mathematical notation
″ Double prime Seconds, inches
« Left guillemet Opening quote in French, German, Romanian
» Right guillemet Closing quote in French, German, Romanian
„ Low double quotation mark Opening quote in German, Polish, Czech
‚ Low single quotation mark Opening single quote in German
‹ Left single guillemet / angle quote Nested quotes, Swiss typography
› Right single guillemet / angle quote Nested quotes, Swiss typography
5

I have more troubleshooting: It appears to work fine in Chrome but not in Brave