On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 at 14:00 -0700, Dennis wrote: > Sasha Pachev wrote: > >>tome instead of tomb--- > >>I'd claim a stupid fat-fingered key-- but `e' and `b' are half way > >across the >keyboard. > > > >Typos are an interesting subject. I found myself occasionally making > >very interesting typos - typing part of the word phonetically as if it > >had been said with a Russian accent. For example, replacing a "b" with > >a "p" in the middle of a word, or spelling "cat" as "cet". > > > Just a side note on the typo subject. I installed Thunderbird 1.5 and > noticed that one of the new features is a spell check while you type. > Pretty nice.
I noticed that in the release notes, and turned it off before it had a chance to annoy me. I hate spell-check-while-you-type. But I'm a good speller and fairly accurate typist (comes from all those years practicing keyboard instruments), so usually they tell me what I already know or bug me about things that I have no intention of changing. The moral of my story is this: always allow the user to turn off "nifty features" that have any possibility of irritation. Thunderbird did it right: it was easy to find and disable. OOo does it half-right, it's not so easy to find but the little light-bulb friend tells you where to go. It's been awhile since I used Word enough to need to find the option, but at that time it was very difficult indeed to find. I would hope it's better now. -- Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
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