#743357 gtypist: Automatic insertion of letters which are yet to type

Package:
gtypist
Source:
gtypist
Description:
simple ncurses touch typing tutor
Submitter:
Anubhav Yadav
Date:
2019-11-21 00:57:04 UTC
Severity:
important
#743357#5
Date:
2014-04-01 23:52:15 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,
*** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

   * What led up to the situation?

   If I am doing any exercise and suppose I have to type the letters
   "he" and instead of typing the letter 'h' I by mistake I type the
   letter 'e' (which I am supposed to type after 'h'

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

   Type the second letter first.

   * What was the outcome of this action?

   The next letter is automatically inserted without my typing it.
   In my example of "he" if I by mistake type 'e' first instead of
   'h', gtypist will show error "^" below h and automatically
   insert an e next to 'e', placing the cursor after 'e'.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

   If  I make any mistake, the cursor should not
   automatically insert the next letter by its
   own. If I make a mistake by typing "e" instead
   of "h" in "he", I would not like 'e' to be inserted
   automatically.

        Note: It only happens if the wrong letter typed is
        the immediate next letter in the series.

        Sorry this is the first ever bug report that I am
        submitting. Please forgive if I made any mistake.

#743357#10
Date:
2014-09-22 18:41:00 UTC
From:
To:
hello Anubhav,

please excuse the very late response, I forgot to look at the gtypist
Debian bugs for a while.

Thanks for the report, I will have a look at the problem on the weekend.

Best Regards,

#743357#15
Date:
2014-09-28 16:17:51 UTC
From:
To:
Felix Natter <fnatter@gmx.net> writes:

hallo Anubhav,

I agree with you and the problem is easy to fix:
We will introduce a --sync-ahead option which enables the above behavior
and is off by default (but only for 2.10, so it won't make it into
jessie I'm afraid).

Can you build from (git) source? If yes, then I could send you a patch
(against GTypist git master) or a development .tar.gz.

Cheers and Best Regards,

#743357#20
Date:
2014-09-28 16:30:24 UTC
From:
To:
Hi Felix

Glad to see you working on this. I am afraid to tell you that I won't
have debian now, so I cannot help you with things that are related to
debian.

However I will fork the git repo, you can push the patch on your
development branch and I will pull the changes. Let me know if this is
fine, maybe I can test the changes and let you know.

Cheers,