Correct Spelling Automatically?
Jaren Angerbauer
I posted this to the TextWranger group, but didn't get any responses: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/textwrangler/9QLNcKjdKus/7Nlzkh5qsQ0J
I've been using TextWrangler for a long time and have been seriously considering moving to BBEdit. However, I am a big fan of MacOS's new spelling correction functionality (Snow Leopard and newer), but don't see this kind of option in either product, although the latest documentation seems to lead me to think it does use the system spellcheck functionality.
I'd really like to start using BBEdit, but not having this feature is pretty much a deal breaker. Any thoughts appreciated.
--Jaren
David Kendal
> I've been using TextWrangler for a long time and have been seriously
> considering moving to BBEdit. However, I am a big fan of MacOS's new
> spelling correction functionality (Snow Leopard and newer), but don't see
> this kind of option in either product, although the latest documentation
> seems to lead me to think it does use the system spellcheck functionality.
At the bottom of the 'Text' menu in BBEdit. (not sure about TextWrangler)
> --Jaren
— dpk.
Christopher Stone
At the bottom of the 'Text' menu in BBEdit. (not sure about TextWrangler)
Jaren Angerbauer
> This just checks spelling and does not auto-correct.
enough, a little window will pop up and and suggest corrections, but
this is not the native auto-correct functionality.
Would this be a viable issue (maybe even as a bug) to submit to BB?
Thanks,
Jaren
Bucky Junior
I don't consider it a bug that BBEdit does not try to spell for me. If it did, the first thing I would find out is how to turn it off. I do not often use the spell checker either. There are so many blocks of text that are not dictionary words that I use when I'm using BBEdit that an auto-correct would be more of a nuisance than a help.
If I need to write some text where I want that continual spelling feed-back, I use one of the many fine word processors that are available free or at cost. It is easy to write up text in a word processor, highlight and move it into BBEdit if need be.
My opinion is to thank Bare Bones for not including such a beast.
Respectfully,
Bucky
Phil Dobbin
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Primarily BBEdit is a text editor aimed as a tool for people writing
code so it follows to have a spell checker that tries to parse something
like:
`:dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.3.0"]
[org.jclouds/jclouds "1.0" :classifier "jdk15"]
[net.sf.ehcache/ehcache "2.3.1" :type "pom"]
[log4j "1.2.15" :exclusions [javax.mail/mail
javax.jms/jms
com.sun.jdmk/jmxtools
com.sun.jmx/jmxri]]]`
or:
`var git = require( '../' );
git.repo( '../.git', function( err, repo ) {
if( err ) { throw new Error( err ); }
repo.commit( '59b20b8d5c6ff8d09518454d4dd8b7b30f095ab5', function(
err, commit ) {
if( err ) { throw new Error( err ); }
var history = commit.history();
history.on( 'commit', function() {
//console.log(arguments);
});`
as you're writing it & attempting auto-corrections would be unfeasible &
counter productive in my opinion.
I suspect that in the implementation of such a feature, the cons may
very well outweigh the pros for barebones but that, of course, is just
my opinion as a customer so take it with a very large pinch of salt :-)
Cheers,
Phil...
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Steve Kalkwarf
> This is correct. BBEdit is slightly different, in that if I type slow
> enough, a little window will pop up and and suggest corrections, but
> this is not the native auto-correct functionality.
The window you refer to is "completions", which serve a different purpose.
> Would this be a viable issue (maybe even as a bug) to submit to BB?
It's on the giant list of things to do, but it's presently not near the top of the list.
Out of curiosity, what sort of writing are you using BBEdit for where this would be a useful addition?
Steve
Jaren Angerbauer
Sorry for the **late** response -- haven't looked at list mail in a while.
> Out of curiosity, what sort of writing are you using BBEdit for where this would be a useful addition?
any kind of text manipulating task I'm doing. For example if I'm
doing a quick edit of a paragraph of text I don't want to open up Word
(or any other bulky word processor) when I can do it 2x as fast in
BBEdit. Plus, I really like the spelling correction functionality in
the recent MacOS versions. I know a lot of people hate it -- not sure
why, but for me, it's saved me a lot of times (in Mail) where I've had
to shoot off a quick email without taking a lot of time to proofread.
Hope that helps to clarify -- thanks for taking the time to respond on this.
--Jaren