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Type Ahead, a continuous predictive text editor

Jun 24, 2024
Type Ahead is a continuous predictive text editor. It always tries to help you auto-complete the current word by using words in (a) the current document as well as (b) a dictionary. Several improvements are possible and easy. First, it could be better by checking a dictionary that was important to the current context. For instance, if you're writing a blog about JavaScript, the contexts would be JavaScript and web programming. Second, the UI could be improved by offering a series of words in a drop-down list. Right now I only guess one word, but that UI would let me guess multiple words. Furthermore, if it really understood 'context' well, things could get very interesting, potentially not just completing the current word, but possibly the one after that, and so on. Obviously there are limits to this, but what I'm thinking of here is something in the way that a Google search result shows you not just the current word you're typing, but the next most common matching words. MY BOOKS: Learn Scala 3 The Fast Way ($5): https://alvinalexander.com/scala/learn-scala-3-the-fast-way-book/ Learn Functional Programming Without Fear ($5): https://alvinalexander.gumroad.com/l/learnfp Functional Programming, Simplified: https://alvinalexander.com/scala/functional-programming-simplified-book Scala Cookbook: