Request for option to only show suggestions with fewer strokes

[marnanel]

Classification: Enhancement Reproducibility: N/A

Summary

A setting to restrict the suggestions window to "useful" strokes.

"Useful" here is defined as taking fewer strokes than what you actually typed.

For example, suppose I type "funny" in two strokes as TPUPB/TPHEU. At present (4.0.0.dev0) the suggestions window displays:

 funny:
    TPAOUPB
    TPUP/KWREU
    TPUB/KWREU
    TPUPB/TPHEU
    TPUPB/KWREU
    TPUPB/KWRAOEU

The only one of these I might want to know is the single-stroke brief TPAOUPB.

This would also mean that fingerspelling a word would suggest the simplest strokes for it,. without the user having to look it up.

[GuiltyDolphin]

@tthurman I agree with having a setting for more 'curated' suggestions, though when cutting suggestions it may be worth bearing in mind that some of them will be for common slips/errors (and probably shouldn't be learnt by rote).

[infodungeon]

Metadata tags for things like common mispellings might make it easier to parse the dictionary a bit more effectively.