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Best Auto-complete Intelli-sense type utility ?
Darwin:
I've been running DA as my primary "launcher" for about five days now. It's very solid and very light on resources - it's also, as noted above, very light on resources. I miss AW's spellchecking/autocorrection feature though... so, I've been trying the apps mentioned in this thread . If you factor in the added overhead of running one of these spell checkers alongside DA - tinyspell at @ 8MB and As-U-Type and WindSpring both at over 14MB (and As-U-Type keeps reserving more and more RAM each time you use it) - AW compares quite favourably with DA. If only there was a way to tweak launch times with it - I'm going to experiment with the various *.ini files for AW.
Added in edit: these other spell checkers offer varying degrees of functionality. AW is "sort of" in between Windspring and As-U-Type in that it will auto-correct your typing as you type, with no other input/interaction with it required from the user. It doesn't offer a drop down menu of alternatives as do all of the spellcheckers mentioned above.
urlwolf:
One suggestion.
This topic doesn't seem to be any longer about "Best Auto-complete Intelli-sense type utility ?" This is about launching utilities... kind of like FARR, launchy and slickRun (I may be wrong). I'm surprised none of those are mentioned.
The utility that does "Auto-complete Intelli-sense type" is, for example, flashPeak Intellicomplete (abandonware). I'm curious to see if anyone knows of a better alternative to this one.
Maybe renaming the thread would help?
Darwin:
I agree with urlwolf, and apologise for the role that I have played in deflecting this thread from its original theme :-[
Renaming or even moving the thread may indeed be a good idea as I imagine that people visiting it for the first time are overwhelmed (or underwhelmed?) by the lack of congruence between its title and the bulk of its contensts.
daskeil:
Hi there, I use autocomplete extensively and currently have 3 different ones going while I decide which to stick with! All are the "free" versions, if commercial versions often have more features.
SpeedTyping - started with this one. very good, very quick, can get it to replace with or without the space added afterwards. Limitations - free version does not allow grouping or rearranging the phrases so once you have a lot it is difficult to find them if you forget the shortcut keys! (which I frequently do). Does not allow spaces in the shortcut phrases. Few options.
Autohotkeys - Very useful and multifunctional. Can cope with spaces in the shortcuts. slower than phrase express. But can have one file with several different scripts in it (using less resources but some bits then stop working as I have little script writing knowledge). The challenge is how to keep track of an ever increasing list of short cuts - any ideas welcomed.
PhraseExpress - very useful as you can organise your phrases into sections making it easier to find ones and edit them plus the shortcut keys to bring up the list so you can just choose the one you want.
The challenge: how to remember all of them!
Have started using the opening word or letters and adding one of the letters till it makes a combination that is NOT part of a normal word (or you end up with it autocompleting things you do not want) eg
hr has a shortcut of hh
hr class="b" has a shortcut of hhb
or pick a letter nearby that is never a complete proper word -
title= uses the shortcut of ttt (as tt occurs in too many words)
this is a recent scheme and seems much more reliable than my others!
The whole idea of autotext is to reduce the amount of typing and finger movement (especially as I have arthritis) so it makes sense to use keys close to each other and easy to use for your shortcuts.
I would welcome other tips on how to device memorable shortcuts!
rjbull:
I would welcome other tips on how to device memorable shortcuts!
-daskeil (November 09, 2006, 03:40 AM)
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daskeil,
Take a look at John Knowles' ABCZ Typing Abbreviation System for a good formalized system for memorable shortcuts. Accent on bashing out text, rather than launching programs, but principle seems to apply. Found it via a posting from Harrie here on DC. Related links:
Donation Coder threads, which deal with text expanders, completers and the like:
jgpaiva's abbreviations importer
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2598.0
link to jgpaiva's AHK tools https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=3461.0
Harrie's review of Instant Text, and following posts
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2631.0
Word AutoCompleter
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=1036.msg6713#msg6713
(mentions IntelliComplete, AutoTyping, LetMeType, AllChars, Type Pilot)
External links:
Productivity Talk - Harrie's own forum site for (primarily) Medical Transcriptionists
http://www.productivitytalk.com/
Jon Knowles site on typing productivity
http://home.earthlink.net/~agjon/index.htm
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