non-graphical word prediction?

[Henrik Nilsen Omma <henrik gotadsl co uk>]

Hi list,

Does anyone know if there is any decent word-prediction utility for 
Linux? I know that GOK and Dasher both have built-in systems, and I'm 
sure those are quite good, but I just want one that works with the 
standard keyboard.

OpenOffice has this functionality to an extent, but it's generally 
limited to a list of a few hundred words that you have to generate 
yourself, and the words must be at least 5 characters long. The way it 
works in OOo is very nice though: you type along and it shows you a 
guess right on the page. With fewer characters entered, you might 
instead want a list like the one seen on GOK.

It would be nice to see this as a Gnome-layer so you could use it to 
enter text into any program, perhaps as a panel applet? Has anyone made 
anything like this? Compared with voice recognition or screen readers, 
this should be quite easy to make as most of the technology. Can GOK be 
extended to do this?

Thanks,

 Henrik