Stenography with Plover will not work with mitype

[cominixo]

Subject of the issue

While using mitype with Plover for stenography, Plover will add a space before each word you type, which makes mitype say the word is invalid.

Your environment

• Arch Linux 5.8.12-arch1-1
• mitype 0.2.0
• Python 3.8.5
• kitty 0.18.3

Steps to reproduce

Install Plover and try to do a typing test in mitype with it enabled.

Expected behaviour

Mitype should accept the input as valid.

Actual behaviour

Mitype says the word is invalid.

Your proposed fix (if any)

#47

[Mithil467]

I'm having trouble wrapping my head around this concept. Like its just a technique to allow typing right. So it shouldn't matter how the content is layed out, it should still enter the text in same order.

Does plover always add a whitespace to all words? Then in that case how is it possible to be used in real life typing?

[cominixo]

Stenography uses "chords", so basically you'll press a bunch of keys at once and it'll write the word, and then automatically put a space before it.

[Mithil467]

Yep I get it. But then I cannot use it daily life to type right? 🤔

[cominixo]

Why not? It's perfectly usable

[Mithil467]

Oh! But then what issue does one face when typing on mitype?

[cominixo]

The only problem is it will add the space before a word, and mitype will see it as invalid, especially when you get a word wrong, delete and rewrite it, because the cursor will be after the space, and then plover will add another space after that space.

[Mithil467]

Consider a sample text : "Some sample string"
So there's a limitation with Plover that it will be able to type : " Some sample string" with a space at beginning and not the original text?

[cominixo]

You can make it write "Some sample string" on the first stroke, there's a setting for that. I think the major problem is when erasing a word it will move the cursor after the last space, so you would start at "Some " and then you would write "sample" again and it would become "Some sample" with two spaces between the words.

[Mithil467]

Now I understand! Thanks :)