Typing a web address is a pain
Typing an URL is quite a pain: Www. SwiftKey. Com
It shouldn't be too hard to detect if a user is typing a Web address or an email address and adjust the correct functions accordingly?
Would be appreciated :)
Pepijn
shared this idea
Swiftkey now goes into “literal mode” after you have typed @ because it knows you are typing an email address. It will not correct or add spaces after periods.
It will also do this after you type www. because it knows you are trying to type a web address.
Outside of a URL field or an email address box we are currently unable to tell if you are writing an email or a web address before you get to these points.
32 comments
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Anonymous
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Could you also enable "literal mode" for Www. because very often the first W is a capital w and swiftkey seems not to react to that
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EricT
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+1 for a switch to toggle off autocomplete. Please?
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Tobias Du
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well after www. just supress the insertion of space
and why not simply delete the space after the top level domain has been typed?
so we can type "foo. com " and after that last space, the gap well be removed? -
denke42
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Trying to set up VPN profile on my new Droid Razr Maxx was maddening. Each server address had three or four periods, and I could not get SwiftKey to stop putting spaces in. Eventually, I just disabled SwiftKey and went back to the Android keyboard.
Can't wait for Android 4.2 to be available for my phone. I have it on a Nexus 7, and it does not have the same problem. In fact, I dumped SwiftKey altogether on the Nexus: 4.2 made it unnecessary.
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Andy
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I agree, just implement an option "Do not add space after (.)dot" and also "do not AutoCaps after (.)dot" As its impossible to write abbreviations like i.e. etc. and proceeding with lower letter. You know what I mean.
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Anonymous
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A dedicated .com button wouldn't resolve the issue. I'm a .net developer and every time I try and type '.net' I get '. net' infuriating.
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Hab
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oh come on.. trying going to a sub-domain (e.g. support. swiftkey. com)
there is no www but swiftkey is still inserting spaces in URLs.. just horrible!
- how about just providing an option to turn this off? -
zloh
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very rarely does anyone actually type "www" for a URL anymore
- PLEASE just add an option to turn of this super-annoying "feature" -
Maximiliano Vasquez
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Just add an option to not add a space after "."
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Don Birdsall
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Until the feature is implemented the work around would seem to be to type an @ symbol followed by the characters you need to enter, then go back and delete the @ symbol. It's clumsy but it does seem to work.
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biocuriousgeorgie
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Can Swiftkey not correct it after the fact, once it realizes you have typed "com"? I like that it moves commas and periods back after you type them since it automatically spaces after every word. Could you do something similar for ".com"?
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Burt
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Sarah, thanks for the admin comment but it is still difficult to type urls. I frequently type a url without www. Like blah.com/blah SwiftKey remembers blah.com but not the whole url. If a word has .com in it then remember/suggest the whole phrase. Or use whatever url pattern match you want. Alternatively, as in my case if I auto complete blah.com and then choose the suggested "/", don't insert " / ".
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Trevor
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Absolutely needs to have a raw or literal mode that can be toggled at will.
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Anonymous
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I use my phone to type ideas for programming which means I use periods a lot. can you make option to disable auto space after using a period, it actually makes my typing less efficient. SwiftKey is the only decent keyboard where I can select dvorak layout and want to keep using it.
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Jim Becker
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Why can't SwiftKey learn email addresses the way it learns words? Or link to address book to auto suggest email addresses. Smart keyboard allows you to add words/addresses to your dictionary manually and create shortcuts to them. Very handy. Please try to incorporate these features. They would make SK perfect!
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JimB
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I'll put this more bluntly. I won't buy or recommend SwiftKey until this is addressed. We're using the "internet" here, and the internet has URLs and email addresses and domains. Add a literal key or some other way to quickly go literal, PLEASE. This is a great product, otherwise!
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MattY
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@Sarah. Would it not be possible to have a personalisation setting in the SwiftKey menu that allowed you to enter regularly used emails. These could then come up as one of the word suggestions when you type the first letter, or first few letters of that address?
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KL Tah
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Outside of a URL field or an email address box we are currently unable to tell if you are writing an email or a web address before you get to these points.
@sarahreynolds please make it so then. Is it really that hard to recognize?
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Anonymous
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I wish predictions would also come on when I'm trying to type in a web address it's a pain in the b*** trying to remember how to spell certain things or type them out manually 1 by 1 letter by letter
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Marek Schimara
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lots of web forms ask for login name & password. Lots of people's logins are "firstName.surname". The automatic space after the dot drives us nuts. Please add an option/button to disable this.
