[Wftl-lug] As-U-Type (was I am hearing blind people discussing the merits of colour!)

[elliott-brennan]

Hi John,

I've just checked the site for the app. What is 
the difference between this and autocorrect in 
<cough> Word or OO?

OO and the lesser version made by Melinda Gate's 
husband :) both have spell-checking in real-time.

Regards,

Patrick


"John Fauquier" <jfauquier at gmail.com>

> I find myself in much the same position. My favourite, if not indispensable
> application, is a Windows program I have used for several years called
> As-U-Type. As you can guess, it is a nifty little program that takes short
> forms and expands them on-the-fly to longer forms. I literally use hundreds
> of them and it makes my rather shoddy typing speed up significantly. It also
> has an on-the-fly spell checker as well as clipboard functions.
> 
> I have asked the author to consider porting it to Linux but he has not
> interest in doing so.
> 
> Does anyone know of anything beyond Emacs that performs the same functions
> in Linux. (I suppose one of the hurdles is the lack of a consistent copy and
> paste function among Linux programs.)
> 
> John Fauquier


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