Musing on generalization

I've been using AutoHotKey as a typing accelerator for a few years now; I credit it with increasing my working capacity (and thus my income) by about 20%. It's been four years since I started using it, so that's maybe $80,000 due to my use of AutoHotKey - and you wondered why I want to learn steno?

Anyway, AutoHotKey and Plover work in very similar ways, leading me to think it might be a good idea to explore the continuum between them, especially as a transitional phase.

For example, just the fact that Plover knows it's typing English and can therefore add spaces appropriately and tack on common endings such as -er, -ing, -s, -ly could really save me a lot of typing in an intermediate mode.

Second thing I thought might be nice - a keyboard-based mode switcher, maybe using one of the special Sidewinder keys, or just a hotkey shortcut on the normal QWERTY board. Maybe a double Ctrl or something easily captured. This would allow me to switch between QWERTY and steno very quickly and fluently in mid-word.