Had this idea a while back: I really enjoyed auto complete in my IDE and configurable expansions and I wanted that everywhere. I threw together an app to run in

Had this idea a while back: I really enjoyed auto complete in my IDE and configurable expansions and I wanted that everywhere. I threw together an app to run in the background to keep track of the last word I typed and manage suggestions when I hit a hotkey. Read from a local dictionary, used basic usage frequency and levenshtein distance to recommend, pretty straightforward hacked together in an afternoon project. I could see Anycomplete using a more local suggestion list instead of relying on Google. Ideally it showed a drop down under where you're typing much like most IDEs would, but support was shotty at best. I really wish there were more OS level hooks for this sort of thing, or a more standardized way to understand what the user is typing and where, but that's not something I ever expect to happen. My app was basically a keylogger while the one in the post is more like a separate entity altogether.