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DRIBBLE

Dribble Movie idea:           

A dribble file could be used to record *all* of the changes
made to an emacs document as it was written... the bursts of text,
the sudden shifts backward to strike words as intentions   
change, the insertion of new parenthetic asides that grow to
dominate the work...                                        
                                                            
A piece of software could be written            This is not unlike 
to make it easier to play back a                one of the purposes 
dribble file... e.g. plain text                 of Ted Nelson's        HYPER
should be played in one step, a                 Xanadu Project.             
single burst, as should, for                    Convienient historical      
example, a long chain of control Ps,            backtrack of all versions.  
perhaps of cursor movement in       
general.  So during play back, you  
repeatedly hit the space bar, and           
you might see something like: a word        
appears, The cursor jumps up five           
lines and over three words a new                            
sentence squirts into the text the                          
cursor skips to the end three                               
sentences squirt into place.                                
                                                            
                                                            
                                                            
                                                            
                                                            
                                                            
Might be more interesting to watch a poem being written than
an essay, no?  Something short with lots of changes made on a  
small scale level.                                          
                                                            
Of course, the next step is to design something you're      
intended to watch play back.  A verbal movie...             
(Like those silly ASCII movies people write sometimes?)     
                                                            
A fixed time delay (rather than
space bar trigger) might be
interesting...

Still better would be a time delay
that's proportional to the size of
the chunk.

Possibly, every sentence should be
it's own chunk.




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