Re: Turning Off Auto-correcting In TextEdit
Re: Turning Off Auto-correcting In TextEdit
- Subject: Re: Turning Off Auto-correcting In TextEdit
- From: Felix Peregrino <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:21:23 -0400
On Oct 13, 2009, at 7:03 PM, Adam Morris wrote:
>Can something be done with AppleScript or Terminal or Cocoa, or any
>other key to the matrix that will stop the SL version of TextEdit
from
>automatically correcting the spelling of what I write whether I want
>it to or not?
Probably not. In the meantime, the simplest answer would be to seek
out a different program.
I use WriteRoom. You can turn off error checking.
>For a couple of months now I've been subscribed to this discussion
list and
>lurking to see if I can learn by staring profoundly at the various
>scripts the members submit in their posts.
Learning Applescript is like learning to speak a new language; trial
and error is the only way.
Does this imply that the software engineers who designed this
defective product won't fix it or are incapable of fixing it? I could
switch to WriteRoom or to a Microsoft product, but the spellchecker
also screws up Mail and Safari in the same manner. Should I also
switch operating systems to avoid this defect? Several times I've made
a typo, and this auto correction feature (that i can't turn off no
matter what) has replaced the mis-typed word with an completely
unrelated term. For a person who doesn't spell well enough to
recognize that the replacement word can mean something detrimental to
the reader, such ignorance (the root word is 'to ignore') could
"spell" disaster and ruin a personal relationship or sour a lucrative
business deal.
I'm retired and don't particularly care if somebody's romantic
interlude or business deal is ruined by a robotic AppleSpeak mechanism
because the spell-checker chose an inappropriate or insulting term the
writer didn't recognize initially. Spell-checkers are wonderful or
used to be. I just wanna be able to turn that specific feature OFF
because it's defective across all Apple products I use.
In regard to the last couple of posts about turning off auto-
correcting from the menus, it doesn't address this problem because
auto correcting still... hmmm... auto corrects?
_
felix
http://applepandowdy.blogspot.com/
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