Autocorrect in Your Keyboard Firmware (2021)

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It sounds ingenious, but dangerous. For example, what happens if you make a mistake and then immediately switch to a different window while the keyboard is deleting your mistake and then typing a correction?

Wouldn't the keyboard queue the following keypresses and only apply them once the fix has been made? So your keyboard invocation of "move to next window" would only trigger once the fix has been made?

As for reaching for the mouse, moving the cursor, clicking in the new window: wouldn't happen faster than the keyboard s autocorrect.

>Wouldn't the keyboard queue the following keypresses and only apply them once the fix has been made?

I don't think that works. The keyboard can't buffer your input while it waits for a match on its autocorrect dictionary.

Imagine how that would seem if you're typing slowly? You will expect each keypress to have an instant output on screen. But nothing would appear.

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