Re: [bug-gtypist] Request: backspace improvement

[Felix Natter]

clutton <address@hidden> writes:

hello Clutton, hello Yves,

> On Sun, 2016-08-14 at 11:30 +0200, Yves Martin wrote:
>>  Hello,
>
> It can be fixed relatively easily, one needs to figure out
> the error_sync logic, and fix it.
>
> What I'm more concerned is about the feature, do we need that look
> ahead thing? Currently it predicts +1 symbol. I've never seen that
> feature in typing software before.

I agree with clutton on this. Features like this are _very_ rarely used
on all all word processing applications I know (classical word
processors, programming IDEs, forms in browsers, ...).
Even if they are used, each will have different algorithms...

--> I think we should make all of this optional, and disable it by
    default)!

@Tim: do you agree?

Or @Yves, are you already _using_ stuff like --word_processor?

Cheers and Best Regards,
-- 
Felix Natter