On Sat, 2013-07-06 at 08:13 -0700, H. S. Teoh wrote: […] > Y'know, I've always found correct-as-you-type features extremely > annoying. I encountered it first in MS Word, and it annoyed me so much I > crawled back into my Vim cave. :-P When I upgraded to a smartphone, I > decided to give it an honest try ... but after about half a year or so, > I'm starting to regret it. I mean, it's nice that once in a while you > can just type approximately and it will correctly guess what you > intended. But other times, it makes the wrong guesses and completely > mangles your text -- but you're so accustomed to it that you don't > notice the mistake until it's too late! And yet other times, it will add > random nonsense words to your custom dictionary just because you hit the > wrong sequence of keys by accident. (Mistype a word, hit space, get the > wrong guess, hit backspace, get the mistyped word back, erase a few > characters, then accidentally hit space instead of, say, B, and now the > *partial* mistyped word is in your dictionary. Wonderful.) > > I'm feeling quite tempted to turn off the feature, right now.
On my Android phone, I am finding Swype to be extremely good most of the time. I tried the free tester and was sufficiently happy to pay money. I will be renewing the subscription which is of course the real test of happiness. Pop-up in IDEs are however another matter, they are so wrong so much of the time that I tend to switch them off or ignore them if I cannot do this – which is surprisingly difficult in some IDEs. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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