On 11/5/18 12:31 AM, Ricardo Berlasso wrote:
El lun., 5 nov. 2018 a las 0:53, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best
Daniel of the bunch) (<daniel....@oeconomist.com
<mailto:daniel....@oeconomist.com>>) escribió:
On 11/4/18 5:08 AM, Ricardo Berlasso wrote:
>
> Sorry for jumping into the discussion, but I think some people
here
> are missing the real point of the problem
>
>> Is that mistake a matter of 'learning'?
>
> Yes, unequivocally.
>
> Not necessarily. There are several forms of mild dyslexia in
which the
> person swaps letters or even "fingers" (typing an "o" instead
of an
> "a," for example).
Dyslexia is a _learning_ disability. Further, there is a body of
research about how to _learn_ to overcome it. Please have coherent
foundation before proceeding in the discussion.
OK, if don't like that part of the discussion, what about the second
part of what I've said? Think of a chemists writing about one of those
substances with kilometric names: a substitution table that changes a
few, carefully chosen characters into the full name could be useful.
If then someone wants to use that feature to also correct typos, it's
their choice. And yes, that can be done with a search & replace, but a
substitution table is something you do only once.
I noted in my very first reply to the fellow who proposed the feature
that he should recognize that it weren't peculiarly limited to
correcting misspellings.
The proposed feature would involve giving-over resources to
development and then resources of each user's computer to support the
additional code. The marginal benefit is that a small share of users
(your hypothetical chemists &alii) neither have to use the
find-and-replace feature already available, nor write and use a
_simple_ file filter.
And please, calm down, nobody is mad at you, there is no need for you
to be mad at anyone else that disagree with you.
The remarks to which I objected in my previous message are not made
any less foolish by my being in one mood or another. So, please,
don't fall back on insults that cannot be proved or disproved.
