Streams: exploring ideas for new features

[saqimtiaz]

@Mark_S

It would be useful if there was a short-cut key to allow editing as a tiddler, since there are short-cut keys for all the other processes.

The new version in development makes this easier to assign a keyboard shortcut for.

However, you can quite easily add a shortcut for this even with the present released version of Streams, see Streams — on TiddlyWiki 5.2.2

@Mark_S

The use case, is that on a under-powered device, streams isn’t very performant ( 7meg TW file). You type a character. Wait. Type another character. But tiddlers themselves work fine.

Right, the issue here is that entire stream is being checked to see if anything needs refreshing on every keystroke. There are two ways we could address this:

1. change the way Streams works so you do not edit a tiddler directly but edit a draft or temp tiddler. This would require an entire rewrite of the plugin so is probably unlikely.
2. when we start editing a node, add the field throttle.refresh to the tiddler. This will delay the refresh process much as is the case when using the draft mechanism for editing. The concern is whether we can reliably remove the field when exiting editing. I may add this as a configuration option for users to try out.