apistomaster(nospam) wrote:
> On Aug 8, 114 pm, Patok <crazy.div.pa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> thumbnail problems wrote:
>>> Now, is there a spell checkre that will
>>> fix trasnposde lettres? OLO
>> Hah! This is a familiar pet peeve. It seems that most checkers are
>> configured to correct mistakes for people that can't spell. There should
>> be a second mode - for clumsy typists. I'm one of them, and it is quite
>> annoying. The more comprehensive checkers, like in Office, offer the
>> correct versions only at the end of their suggestion lists. And some of
>> the simpler ones, like in Mozilla, sometimes don't offer them at all.
>> Could it be that the majority of people don't know how to spell, but are
>> consistent in 'correctly' typing out their ignorance?
>>
>
> I just highlight questionably spelled words then with the cursor
> centered on the highlighted word, right click and you get a list of
> possible correct spellings. I get the impression few people are aware
> of this feature.
I don't know how many people are aware. I /am/ aware, and my
complaint is that with my type of typos (transposed letters, or hit an
adjacent key instead of the correct one), the correct word is offered
only at the very end of the list, if at all.
Just to illustrate: I mistyped "jobs on the fringe" as "uobs on the
gringe". Note that this is a 'next key' mistype on a querty keyboard. In
Word, the first choice to correct 'uobs' was indeed 'jobs', while
Thunderbird did not offer a correct version at all. And for 'gringe',
the situation was reversed - Word did /not/ offer 'fringe', while
Thunderbird offered it as a second choice.
What I'm saying is that there should be a "clumsy typist" mode for
the spell-checkers, where the first choices should be the adjacent keys,
instead of assuming that the user can't spell. In this mode, offers to
correct 'gringe' into 'grange' or 'gringo' should go to the end of the
suggestion list.
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