Re: Ignore Spelling not persistent?
Re: Ignore Spelling not persistent?
- Subject: Re: Ignore Spelling not persistent?
- From: Mike Crawford <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 12:03:13 -0700
I suggest filing a feature request to recommend Apple create a
standardized way to share that ignore list among all applications.
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On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 11:55 AM, Alan Snyder
<email@hidden> wrote:
> Good point. Indeed, it is the responsibility of the app to save the list of
> ignored words, and there is an API it can use to restore the list into
> NSSpellChecker.
>
> Apple’s own apps are inconsistent. Pages makes the ignored words persistent
> (although the words do not take effect immediately on reopening a document,
> presumably a bug). TextEdit and Mail do not.
>
> Part of the implementation of persistent ignored words is to provide a way to
> remove words from the list. Pages does this. Perhaps that is just too much
> work to support in other apps.
>
> Alan
>
>
>
>
>> On Aug 22, 2017, at 8:43 PM, Jens Alfke <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Aug 22, 2017, at 6:26 PM, Alan Snyder <email@hidden
>>> <mailto:email@hidden>> wrote:
>>>
>>> The documentation that I have seen for the Ignore Spelling contextual menu
>>> item says that it applies to the current document, but does not say one way
>>> or the other whether the setting is persistent. As far as I can tell, the
>>> setting is not persistent. That strikes me as odd. Why would one want to
>>> ignore the word only in one editing session? I imagine using this command
>>> for words that are correct in context but not correct in all contexts. Any
>>> thoughts?
>>
>> I don't think the spell-checker knows how to persist data [the list of
>> ignored words] into the text being checked. In other words, it doesn't know
>> how or where you're saving that text. If you want this persistent behavior,
>> which I agree is good, you'll have to save the state of that setting, plus
>> the list of ignored words, into your document somehow. (I don't know how to
>> do this; I've never worked with the Cocoa spell-check API.)
>>
>> —Jens
>
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