but wait... it gets even MORE idiotic! - mikirby

So, since the cursor-positioning features don't function as advertised. I though I'd try an applescript snippet. I used this:

tell application "System Events" to tell process (path to frontmost application as string) to key code {123}
-- the above is a backspace, to backspace over the required pre-abbreviation whitespace that they don't tell you about anywhere
tell application "System Events" to tell process (path to frontmost application as string) to keystroke "q"

which works fine in script editor. And of course -- like everything else about this app -- it <i>almost</a> works as advertised, and consequently is useless.

The problem is this:
1) Everytime you execute an Applescript snippet, the combuter beeps like you've made a mistake, which is endlessly irritating; and, more seriously:
2) Every time you execute an applescript snippet, it swallows whatever you type in the next half-second. So if you have set up "q" as an abbreviation for "qu", you might assume that if you type "re qiem" using the above applescript, it will expand to "requiem". WRONG! If you type at 50wpm, like I do, it expands to "requem" because it swallows the letter following the abbreviation unless you purposefully wait a half a second - thereby eradicating <i>any</i> time savings you might have had by using abbreviations!

What an idiotic program. I am fuming over having my time wasted by developers who can't document their program properly, so you have to waste time discovering that the way it works ain't exactly how it was described.

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Monday, February 02 2009 @ 10:57 PM PST

almost works as described = FAIL - Glasgow

> Used Product For: Less than a month

Read Documentation For: Less then 5 seconds
Explored Preferences For: Less than 5 seconds

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> As it is, it requires you to place a delimiter- a space -
> before each abbreviation.

Go and read the documentation. Don't just assume. Then you might even come back and apologise...

The program is not perfect - personally, I've had one or two minor issues with it - but it's a damn sight better than you've made it out to be.

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Thursday, February 19 2009 @ 04:01 AM PST