Re: Turning Off Auto-correcting In TextEdit
Re: Turning Off Auto-correcting In TextEdit
- Subject: Re: Turning Off Auto-correcting In TextEdit
- From: Deivy Marck Petrescu <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:59:27 -0400
On Oct 13, 2009, at 8:21 PM, Felix Peregrino wrote:
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> On Oct 13, 2009, at 7:03 PM, Adam Morris wrote:
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>> >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.
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> 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?
>
Well, it does not in my system. Once I turn auto correct off it does not auto correct!
If this is the case with your system, I suggest you save an Apple system profiler file of your computer and file a bug report with Apple.
It is a problem that happens with your setup only.
To get the system profiler go to the Apple menu click on About this Mac and then on "More info ...". Then go to the File menu and click on "Save as ..."
TextEdit works as expected OMM.
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> felix
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> http://applepandowdy.blogspot.com/
Regard
Deivy Petrescu
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