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Re: Changing Spelling Dictionary?
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Re: Changing Spelling Dictionary?


  • Subject: Re: Changing Spelling Dictionary?
  • From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 03:34:36 -0700

At 10:04a +0200 04/21/2004, Harald E Brandt didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus:

On 2004-04-20, at 11.16, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
And if anyone wants to _disable_ the interactive spell checking:

defaults write -g CheckSpellingWhileTyping 0

That's not very effective!
One has to restart the app before it takes effect in that app!

LOL. Well I have to restart the whole computer a couple times a month anyway due to swapfile proliferation, so it suits me fine. ;)

And with some apps, such as Hog Bay Notebook, it has no effect at all!

Send 'em a bug report?

A much better way to do it is via UI scripting.

If you're in a text field _and_ you're running Panther. I'm on 10.2.8.


-boo
who would never have imagined "better way" and "UI scripting" in the same sentence
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 >Changing Spelling Dictionary? (From: Harald E Brandt <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Changing Spelling Dictionary? (From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>)
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 >Re: Changing Spelling Dictionary? (From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Changing Spelling Dictionary? (From: Harald E Brandt <email@hidden>)

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