Simple utility to turn swipes into words -- "plugin" for wvkbd to enable swipe-typing under wayland SXMO.
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@@ -18,9 +18,19 @@ There's a WIP Merge Request towards proycon's wvkbd for an example of this. This should be a list of words, sorted by preferability of choice. +Good starting points can be found on the web, based on your language. + +### Example English Word Lists + +* http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/wordlist - 69,903 English words, including obscure words, missing common stems. +* http://www.mieliestronk.com/corncob_lowercase.txt - 58,110 English words with British spelling. +* https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dwyl/english-words/master/words.txt - 466,550 words, including many proper nouns like names. +* https://norvig.com/ngrams/count_1w.txt - 333,333 words, abbreviations, etc, sorted by popularity. +* https://www.keithv.com/software/wlist/index.php - page with several links providing intersections between english word lists (26,680 - 1,516,998 words) + ### sorting tips -Note: you probably want longest words first, otherewise, it may be impossible to type them. +The most basic sorting technique would put longest words first, otherwise, it may be impossible to type them. ``` # Good autocompletion for terminal @@ -33,6 +43,7 @@ Smarter sorting would be keyboard-layout aware. mapscore.py can do that for you ```sh ./mapScore.py map.txt <words.txt | sort -nr | cut -f2 > wordsSorted.txt ``` + map.txt uses tabs and newlines to create the grid-based layout. ### alternate formats @@ -42,4 +53,11 @@ The script `makeDir.sh` is provided to help create these. ## output-program -* `completelyTypeWord.sh` (included in this repository) will type the characters (besides the first character) using wtype. +* `completelyTypeWord.sh` (included in this repository) will type the characters (besides the first character, which is already typed by wvkbd) using wtype. + +# Installation/Usage with wvkbd + +1. Be using a wayland-based graphical shell (such as sway) +2. copy swipeGuess.sh and completelyTypeWord.sh into your $PATH (`~/.local/bin/` or `/usr/local/bin/` for example) +3. `wvkbd-mobintl -O | swipeGuess.sh /path/to/words.txt | completelyTypeWord.sh` + * In SXMO, `KEYBOARD_ARGS='-O | swipeGuess.sh /path/to/words.txt | completelyTypeWord.sh'` can be added to your ~/.profile to enable this (effective on restart). |