Feature v. bug. Capitalizing the first letter in a sentence is a feature.
It doesn't have to be implemented for the software to be useful. I'm not a
developer, but I have found I can live just fine without this feature,
although I have used it and found it useful as well. I guess it goes to the
larger issue of "auto-correct" If some form of auto-correct is implemented
("the" for "teh") then there will have to be some way to also capitalize the
first letter of a sentence, otherwise "Teh" may be corrected to "the". I've
found autocorrect to take a lot of getting used to as I typically feel a
typo as I make it and automatically start hitting the backspace key, even
before completing the word. With autocorrect, I have to force myself to
continue typing a word I know is incorrect because I know the computer will
fix it anyway. That has been a hard transition. I do find autocorrect
useful for inserting special symbols, such as replacing -- with an m-dash
(still a cumbersome process with Abi).
By contrast, a bug is where, say for instance, the program doesn't insert a
font-size code into a blank line in RTF files. Now, *that's* a bug that
should be fixed.
Just my humble opinion.
Virgil
>From: Hubert Figuiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Francisco Born�o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Capitalize first letter of sentence
>Date: 04 Mar 2002 23:04:47 +0100
>
>On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 22:33, Francisco Born�o wrote:
>
> > >1) I create this software for myself. The fact other people use it is
> > >secondary to my interests. My motivations are my own.
> >
> > So, why do you release in the web?
>
>Because WE (the other developer) do. What is an artist that does not
>publish ?
>
> > A singer, a poet, a painter and a programmer, well every creator don't
>do a
> > work for his own. We do our works for the world!!
>
>Nope. Each people do it for his own reasons.
>
> > >There's a difference, as is shown by people's opinions on the mailing
> > >list so far - not one person has agreed with you.
> >
> > How many people are in the list? How many people, that are only users,
> > really write to the list???
>
>407 subscribers.
>Dev list is 254.
>
>
>Hub
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