On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Jan Groenewald <j...@aims.ac.za> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:36:00PM -0500, Jason Grout wrote:
>>I'm just throwing it out there in the
>> interest of brainstorming.
>
> Two more ideas:
>
> 1. a by default OFF feature, which can somewhere be set to
> on, to prevent the CPU/RAM problems. Probably will trip up
> inexperienced users who will leave it on though.

The aforementioned CPU/RAM problems are intractable in the multi-cell
mode.  Having more than three or four syntax-highlighting franken-divs
will just crash your browser.  Perhaps if you have a few dozen gigs of
RAM, it won't crash because it will slow to a crawl before filling up
all available memory.

>
> 2. a completely non-automatic feature, which only runs once
> when you click somwhere, "check parenthesis", which then checks
> all or perhaps selected cells.

That's what the ctrl-0 in #3646 does.

>
> I have no idea how feasible these are.
>
> Jan
>
> --
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> >
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