17 Apr
2013
17 Apr
'13
6:17 p.m.
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, Tony Duell wrote:
I do hate machines that think they know better than I
do what I actually
want. It's fine to warn me that a word was not found in the dictionary,
but not to change it. After all, a lot of what I type involves signal
names, variable names, assembly language mnemonics, etc. Those are
unlikely to be found in a (smartphone) dictionary, and changing them will
make nonsnse of the text.
About three decades ago, I designed a spell checking program with
heuristically developed lexicon.
'course when you switch to another set of mnemonics that you haven't used
before, it would call your attention to each.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com