Pointer/cursor jumping at MacMail Sonoma M2

When I am writing a message at MacMail (16.0 version but this has been happening with Monterey and now Sonoma OS on a MacAir 2022 M2) --

and just now in writing this message, I'll pause to think and when I go to continue the place being permitted (and chosen by the computer) is somewhere else on the page. It can happen perhaps when I am using pinkie finger keys: might i be activating some short-cut combination of keys that causes this jumping? I wonder also it it is being happening because I am touch-typing with a kind of old-fashioning dancing fingers kind of action, if you -- there I did it there, and the pointer on my stopping this action for a pause JUMPED up to the word "jumping?" above, in the middle of that word with the notation for a spelling correction. It is worse with the Sonoma OS -- is it perhaps because of the AI automatic correction system that Sonoma has operating when one types?


It is very annoying and I'd like to learn (there it just jumped to the space here between these paragraphs -- as if it so to the last place in which a longer pause happened last) -- please help me to understand what might be happening (rather than just 'a fix' without it coming out of more understanding). I sense that it might be some behavior of mine that is trigger it.


MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Jun 4, 2024 12:01 PM

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Posted on Jun 15, 2024 9:41 AM

Turning off the key repeat rate is the solution to the place-marker jumping to a different place on the page. This keyboard sensitivity seems to be the place to play with to get the effect one is looking for.


Sys Pref/Settings > keyboard > sensitivity > key repeat rate > OFF (option provided on the range of speed sliding bar).

In the same setting > keyboard > delay until repeat > short


It allows me to let my fingers fly in touch typing out my thoughts, without the place marker jumping around; even if, one has to give up: speed in deleting a section of a sentence and the typing of a line across the page. It is worth it for the enjoyment of typing freely in tune with the thoughts happening without the jumping happening.


My observation is that it is something about the Sonoma OS and the addition of it seems like an artifical intelligence component that finishing typing a word or phrase out for one, that has had the effect that I was experiencing with my speed and style of typing.

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Jun 15, 2024 9:41 AM in response to allan299

Turning off the key repeat rate is the solution to the place-marker jumping to a different place on the page. This keyboard sensitivity seems to be the place to play with to get the effect one is looking for.


Sys Pref/Settings > keyboard > sensitivity > key repeat rate > OFF (option provided on the range of speed sliding bar).

In the same setting > keyboard > delay until repeat > short


It allows me to let my fingers fly in touch typing out my thoughts, without the place marker jumping around; even if, one has to give up: speed in deleting a section of a sentence and the typing of a line across the page. It is worth it for the enjoyment of typing freely in tune with the thoughts happening without the jumping happening.


My observation is that it is something about the Sonoma OS and the addition of it seems like an artifical intelligence component that finishing typing a word or phrase out for one, that has had the effect that I was experiencing with my speed and style of typing.

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