[publiusF27]

I really don't need the machine to be interfering with what I'm typing. Maybe this auto-substitution could be customizable?

It's actually surprisingly fun and useful. I have a program called TypeIt4Me that does this. I type a short abbreviation of something, hit the spacebar, and it expands the abbreviation to whatever I have set. You can turn on and off expansion keys. Mine knows all the words I commonly misspell, all the common things I have to type all the time, and it even knows a fair amount of HTML.

[SunkenCiv]

It can be fun... for example, a former boss (he was my boss for eight years or so) was a really awfully obnoxious fan of U of Mich teams (he didn’t go there, said he couldn’t have gotten in with his grades) so I changed his dictionary (this was in some version of Windows) to auto-replace various combinations of U of M with “Michigan State”. :’)