Mavericks auto-corrects words before I finish typing

Thanks, but I'm trying to avoid disabling it, as it is useful.

I'm wondering if there's some other issue, as I've yet to find anyone who has had the same premature auto-correction problem.

Checked it, 'fo' is not there. I use custom text substitutions quite heavily. I believe them to be separate from the automatic spelling corrections (like 'the' for 'teh') which don't appear in the text substitutions list.

The issue as I see it is Mavericks shouldn't change anything, correction or substitution, while typing a word. Space, return and a trackpad click are delimiters that tells Mavericks that typing of a word has finished, and the substitution/correction can be applied. In my case, corrections sometimes appear before I do any of those.

I could add 'fo' as a substitution for 'fo', but that was just one example. It seems to happen with random pre-delimiter 'errors' at random times.

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

Yes, I have a few macro programs, actually… 😊

Quicksilver for triggers, Dash for some more complex text substitutions (variables, clipboard integration), and a very ancient Spark.app for a couple of triggers that would otherwise tie up Quicksilver.

I'll see if I can catch the issue when one or more of those apps are not running, too.