Automatic space

[notIkibo]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I have the auto spaces setting on. It's timesaving when I type. Either I wrote my word correctly and click space or I just click on the correct assumption above the keyboard without needing to use space again (I don't use auto correction). Also nice after punctuations.

THOUGH: The space is added after you type. Not already after you clicked on the assumption.

Why is it inconvenient?

The space is there either way. Now most of the times, the space being late is under intended use case. You type words and stuff, it works saving strokes.

But when it comes to:

Adding to the assumed word:

Lets take "assume". My intended text is: "Yeah, I assumed as much"

Now let's imagine that in the process I completely missclicked everything in "asdmuel", but I find a part of my word in the assumption.

"assume"

(In my case,I could've added "d" in my typo and "assumed" would be presented. For fairness) Yess. My keyboard knows me. I click it and feel victorious. But Im not done yet. I need to add the suffix "d"

It becomes: "Yeah, I assume d"

Now I only need two additional backspaces and then Im able to add to my desired word.

Other example:

I wrote someone the url for WhatsApp Web.

So it's "web.whatsapp.com"

How did it look like irl?

Nomenclature:

Backspace: 0

web. W00whatsapp. C00com

(I could add a space instead of a letter. Actually came up with it right at the end, so it's 2 strokes more instead of 3)

3 strokes just because you can't delete the existing, but only potential space.

Describe the solution you'd like

I click on my desired word: Instant addition of space.

I activated the feature, so it's "my fault" when undesired.

If it is undesired: I just click backspace once.

If it's undesired now: I click 3/2 keys.

Usually you'll end up with spaces at the end of your text more often than not (which is fine). Or I am sure there are other special scenarios where the additional non-potential space makes you backspace instead of not needing to. But I somehow noticed it enough that I write it on Github

What would be worth considering:

Just now: I edited some text in my already existing sentence structure. Specifically, I edited the ends. So my textcursor was next to the dot. It felt comfortable that no space was added.

So it might be worth looking into extra ruling.

Any kind of punctuation or space on the left of the cursor maintains the current solution.

Describe alternatives you've considered (if any)

Swiftkey had this solution. It gives more control honesty. it's empowerment really

Honourable mentions

Just here:

I wrote stuff like "Yeah,..." and "Specifically,..."

In both cases the space was not added, after I typed. It just also happened with a dot. When writing them here: I couldn't reproduce.