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Trouble is, you don't notice the thousand times when Word corrects a "teh", a caps "MIstake", or an apostrophe screw-up. But we do notice when it changes acron
by encoderer 17y ago
Trouble is, you don't notice the thousand times when Word corrects a "teh", a caps "MIstake", or an apostrophe screw-up.
But we do notice when it changes acronyms and other things in a way that makes us ctrl+z the auto-correct.
- stcredzero 17y agoA part of the problem is the top-down mandated idea of what is "correct." If these things can be adaptive in a non-intrusive way, then it can all be like "teh" and "MIstake." I would love to stop telling new word processors to stop correcting Smalltalk. I wonder if there's any way to keep information like that around with you? I can try to do 100% of my word processing on Google docs, but, am I ever going to get there? Preferences like this need to be tended by operating systems. If I tell one text editor widget about "Smalltalk," there's no reason why all of them across the system shouldn't know about it.
- ptomato 17y ago"If I tell one text editor widget about "Smalltalk," there's no reason why all of them across the system shouldn't know about it." It is on OS X. (Leaving aside software that implements its own spellchecking, of course.)