2008.8 - issue
Dale Maggee
antisol at internode.on.net
Fri Aug 8 21:11:31 CEST 2008
William Kenworthy wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 21:21 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
>
>> How do you type something like "apm" into the terminal application? - oh
>> how I *HATE* predictive text :(
>>
>> Is there a way to kill it?
>>
>> BillK
>>
>>
>
> Still want to kill it - preferably permanently. I cant believe anyone
> thought this was a good idea :(
>
> Also looks like there is no backspace key to even try to fix the mess it
> makes of text.
>
> I'll have to ignore the terminal until someone fixes it up .
>
> BillK
>
I'm right there with ya, bill - it's very pretty, but the predictive
text is *so* annoying! seems pretty unneccessary for a qwerty keyboard
to me - I thought it was interesting to learn that when i typed in
'internode', I actually meant 'interview'?!? :O
Also I find the way it automatically adds spaces to be annoying, not
very good in a terminal.
It's a *big* improvement in terms of finger-pressability over the
matchbox keyboard on 2007.2, and it's *much* prettier, but the
predictive text makes it more difficult to use, especially in a terminal.
I'd also really like to see an enter key on the qwerty page, and maybe
(I know I'm pushing it here) a couple of the most commonly used symbols
such as hyphen and period on the qwerty page.
-Dale
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