Change rules regarding spaces/corrections when punctuation is inserted

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Changes to the way that auto-spacing works before/after punctuation (e.g. "(" having a space before but not after and ")" having a space after but not before)

Changes to the way that punctuation accepts predictions (e.g. "," accepts the middle prediction but ";" does not)

Original post:
tweak "always insert a prediction with space" setting to behave differently after punctuation. After any punctuation mark, space should actually insert a space, but typing anything else should 'remove' the auto-space. More simply: *the prediction after punctuation that usually is followed by a space ('.','?','!', etc) should BE a space* thus, when you press (space) after a '.', it inserts a ' ' (space character). To me, this would seem like an easy way to incorporate it into your pre-existing program AND allow learning of hyphenated words or initials.

This would allow easier typing of words like:

e.g.
a:b
orangey-yellow
:)
dotNotation.JavaScript();

So imagine you type this sentence: 'Mary went to school'
--> to insert 'school', you type a '.' | 'Mary went to school.'
--> after the period, you type (space), which inserts a space | 'Mary went to school. '
--> now you type normally again (with auto-capitalization at beginning of sentence, etc).

doing this with all punctuation would make it easier to write initials, hyphenated words, etc without the incredible frustration of constantly having to delete back.

Not only that, it would make typing with Swiftkey **more intuitive.** Typing on a normal keyboard, you use a space to separate words (as swiftkey does now with space to enter prediction) AND you use a space after most punctuation marks. When I first started using Swiftkey, I frequently would type a (space) after a '.' and end up inserting an unwanted prediction. Generally, I want the space-inserts-prediction-feature, but it makes it incredibly frustrating to type anything with punctuation, abbreviations,acronyms, etc.

- The "space always inserts a prediction" feature is incredibly important for typing quickly with Swiftkey. It just needs to be changed a bit.

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Ahmed shared this idea · Mar 28, 2012 · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Admin →

Dan Bartell shared a merged idea: Cancel autocapitalization/spacing under certain conditions · Aug 8, 2012 ·

goutmpost shared a merged idea: Dash (—),hyphen (-), colon ( : ) etc with auto space · Feb 3, 2012 ·

Alin shared a merged idea: The semicolon (;) the colon (:) and the apostrophe (') are not recognized as punctuation as dot (.) or comma (,) · Dec 16, 2011 ·

Joël Bourquard shared a merged idea: Auto complete current word when typing a separator (hyphen, ampersand, colon, ...) · Jul 21, 2011 ·

Jaime shared a merged idea: Insert more punctuation next to previous word (@, :, /, , ', etc.) · Jun 15, 2011 ·

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