Re: The OLPC develop activity requirements.

On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, J.M. Maurer wrote:

> On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 12:55 -0500, Ivan Krstić wrote:
> > Martin Sevior wrote:
> > > They have a requirement to save every 20 keystrokes or 20 seconds. Their
> > > first thought would be to have an addition GtkSignal emitted by abiword
> > > on every keystroke, then could count these and save as they need.
> >
> > I see no reason to do this on keystrokes, particularly because the
> > journal writes are rate-limited by time (e.g. no more than one save
> > every 30 seconds). Doing just an elapsed time-based implementation
> > should be fine.
>
> But I can imagine in a Develop like activity, you would want to be
> notified of every change, so you can for example show some
> "intellisense"/code completion like popups.

Wouldn't the existing spellcheck triggers be more than adequate for that
sort of thing?

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Alan