Re: The OLPC develop activity requirements.

On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 23:18 +0000, Alan Horkan wrote:
>
> On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, J.M. Maurer wrote:
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> > 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?

Good suggestion... I doubt we export those atm though.

Marc
Received on Sun Mar 4 00:42:54 2007