Um, if you're using a good word processor, hitting space DOES correct your spelling errors. And gives you the option of reverting it or turning it off, if you're annoyed by the change.
For values of good word processor that will remain private.
I was quite sure that you'd specified word processor, but I see that was in an alternate reality. Yay quantum shifts.
Any auto-correct that doesn't let you change the entries in the database is bad B&D. . . but if it does, and you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater, you're missing a good bet: customize your list, then save it off, and move it from machine to machine. It's nifty.
Naw, I was on the command line, and had a brainfart, wondering why it wasn't auto correcting 'rn' to 'rm'.
Customized dictionaries are indeed nifty, I just prefer them at the OS level instead of replicating them in each app. (I don't know what it is about The Word Processor Which Shall Not Be Named, but it just feels... off. *shrug* I don't have to use it more than three or four times a year, so it's not an issue.)
Yes, if you hit yourself in the foot with a hammer, eventually it *does* go numb. ;) If I find the feature annoying, I doubt that repeated exposure is going to make me *like* it, only become resigned to it. I avoid the app on purpose, because I don't care for it. Period. I use it when I have no other recourse. Luckily, those times are becoming more and more rare.
Different strokes for different folks. Viva la choice.
You know, if you pick out an incorrect metaphor, you can justify anything.
What I was saying is that untrained, this feature is a little-to-very annoying. But if you take the time to make it yours, it becomes something that fixes YOUR PERSONAL PROBLEMS, the ones that YOU ACTUALLY WANT FIXED. No autocorrect system can read your mind; you have to tell it what you do that you hate, so that it can help you the NEXT time. If you see it make an improper correction once and get frustrated with _it_, you're missing the point.
You really need to save your bile for the misfeatures of This Program that actually _are_ terrible and can't be turned off. Trust me, there are enough of those. More than enough.
Jesus fucking christ on a flaming pogo stick of doom. All I said was that I didn't care for how the feature behaves. Chill.
I have zero *reason* to take the time to handhold the feature until it is useful, therefore it is highly unlikely it is ever going to get past the point of pain for me. Capice? Got it now? Understand?
If I had a reason to use Word (*gasp* I said it) on an ongoing basis, then your little heart could rest assured that I would have it trained into usefulness (or some semblance thereof) out of necessity.
I. Have. No. Reason. To. Use. The. App. So. Training. It. Is. A. Waste. Of. My. Time.
Clear enough?
And for the record... "Which is why you don't learn it well enough..." comes across as very condescending. Someone else might get peeved by it and snark back at you.
Word? Who said anything about Word? I don't use Word even as much as you do any more, now that my documentation at work has to done in XML and stupid internal websites. (Please don't get me started on InfoPath and SharePoint.) I was talking about Pages.
Nonetheless, as much as I'm missing your point, the reason I'm missing your point is that you're missing mine. (Or maybe it's the other way around.)
My point is: You could have said any combination of A and B, where A is "Steve, who fucking said word processor? Weren't me." and B is "I'm not talking about a per-program correction, and I'm not interested in it." That would have been a reasonable shut-down of any rant I had. And please note that I already picked up on and apologized for both of those mistakes on my part; I'd do so again if I didn't think it would be boring to the .68 people still reading this part of the thread.
But what you did was say "Customized dictonaries are nifty" _and_ "if I find the feature annoying, I doubt that repeated exposure to it is going to like it". Which set me off because you like this feature in programs you like, but won't give it a chance in programs you don't. Yes, I understand that you don't use Word (I wasn't talking about Word, but you were) often enough to come up with a comforting and useful custom dictionary. No reason you should. But that isn't the feature's fault! And you're giving it hate as if it sucks when you don't use it.
You consistently choose to heap hate on software because of who it's from, and it really diminshes my respect for your opinion. Someone as patently intelligent as you should hate _software_that_sucks_, not software from X Corp. You can end up with virtually the same set of things you hate, but at least you won't sound like a software bigot every time you trot out your opinions. For that matter, you'll actually get to hate even more stuff, because _lots_ of software sucks. Way more than comes from X Corp. (And yes, this time the variable _is_ Microsoft. What the fuck ever.)
As for coming across as very condescending. . . it was pretty much accidental, and yet I don't feel all that bad about it. If you persistently choose to act in a way I consider idiotic, eventually you get treated like you're an idiot, by me. And I'm heartily tired of your supercilious certainty that your opinions about software and hardware are Just Automatically Right, when you're only marginally more right than many of the rest of us. I give much credit to your schooling, the bare exposure I've had to your research, and your intelligence in how much credence I give to your opinions, but the fact is that you've been acting like you just know best for nigh on two decades, and it's really fucking tiresome in the cases where it's plain that you just don't.
I don't want to chill. I don't want to be handled. I don't even want to be here any more. I want you to grow the fuck up and stop being a moron. It's going to cost us the remains of our friendship, very probably at this point, but I don't care: you're too smart and have too much to contribute to continue acting like this. If it's bad enough that someone you've seen once this century can muster up this much emotion about it, imagine what the guy in the next office feels like, hmm?
Indeed. And I particularly like how they use table/column width as the default zoom region, if available. Very smart. Works exceedingly well with the long columnar layout most blogs have.
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Date: 2008-11-06 11:34 pm (UTC)For values of good word processor that will remain private.
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Date: 2008-11-06 11:39 pm (UTC)(And if it's the word processor I think it is, its auto-correct is the first thing I turn off... It's fairly poor in my experience.)
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Date: 2008-11-06 11:43 pm (UTC)Any auto-correct that doesn't let you change the entries in the database is bad B&D. . . but if it does, and you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater, you're missing a good bet: customize your list, then save it off, and move it from machine to machine. It's nifty.
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Date: 2008-11-07 12:34 am (UTC)Customized dictionaries are indeed nifty, I just prefer them at the OS level instead of replicating them in each app. (I don't know what it is about The Word Processor Which Shall Not Be Named, but it just feels... off. *shrug* I don't have to use it more than three or four times a year, so it's not an issue.)
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Date: 2008-11-07 12:35 am (UTC)But you're right--OS level would be better.
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Date: 2008-11-07 12:45 am (UTC)Different strokes for different folks. Viva la choice.
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Date: 2008-11-07 01:08 am (UTC)What I was saying is that untrained, this feature is a little-to-very annoying. But if you take the time to make it yours, it becomes something that fixes YOUR PERSONAL PROBLEMS, the ones that YOU ACTUALLY WANT FIXED. No autocorrect system can read your mind; you have to tell it what you do that you hate, so that it can help you the NEXT time. If you see it make an improper correction once and get frustrated with _it_, you're missing the point.
You really need to save your bile for the misfeatures of This Program that actually _are_ terrible and can't be turned off. Trust me, there are enough of those. More than enough.
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Date: 2008-11-07 01:43 am (UTC)I have zero *reason* to take the time to handhold the feature until it is useful, therefore it is highly unlikely it is ever going to get past the point of pain for me. Capice? Got it now? Understand?
If I had a reason to use Word (*gasp* I said it) on an ongoing basis, then your little heart could rest assured that I would have it trained into usefulness (or some semblance thereof) out of necessity.
I. Have. No. Reason. To. Use. The. App. So. Training. It. Is. A. Waste. Of. My. Time.
Clear enough?
And for the record... "Which is why you don't learn it well enough..." comes across as very condescending. Someone else might get peeved by it and snark back at you.
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Date: 2008-11-08 01:43 am (UTC)Nonetheless, as much as I'm missing your point, the reason I'm missing your point is that you're missing mine. (Or maybe it's the other way around.)
My point is: You could have said any combination of A and B, where A is "Steve, who fucking said word processor? Weren't me." and B is "I'm not talking about a per-program correction, and I'm not interested in it." That would have been a reasonable shut-down of any rant I had. And please note that I already picked up on and apologized for both of those mistakes on my part; I'd do so again if I didn't think it would be boring to the .68 people still reading this part of the thread.
But what you did was say "Customized dictonaries are nifty" _and_ "if I find the feature annoying, I doubt that repeated exposure to it is going to like it". Which set me off because you like this feature in programs you like, but won't give it a chance in programs you don't. Yes, I understand that you don't use Word (I wasn't talking about Word, but you were) often enough to come up with a comforting and useful custom dictionary. No reason you should. But that isn't the feature's fault! And you're giving it hate as if it sucks when you don't use it.
You consistently choose to heap hate on software because of who it's from, and it really diminshes my respect for your opinion. Someone as patently intelligent as you should hate _software_that_sucks_, not software from X Corp. You can end up with virtually the same set of things you hate, but at least you won't sound like a software bigot every time you trot out your opinions. For that matter, you'll actually get to hate even more stuff, because _lots_ of software sucks. Way more than comes from X Corp. (And yes, this time the variable _is_ Microsoft. What the fuck ever.)
As for coming across as very condescending. . . it was pretty much accidental, and yet I don't feel all that bad about it. If you persistently choose to act in a way I consider idiotic, eventually you get treated like you're an idiot, by me. And I'm heartily tired of your supercilious certainty that your opinions about software and hardware are Just Automatically Right, when you're only marginally more right than many of the rest of us. I give much credit to your schooling, the bare exposure I've had to your research, and your intelligence in how much credence I give to your opinions, but the fact is that you've been acting like you just know best for nigh on two decades, and it's really fucking tiresome in the cases where it's plain that you just don't.
I don't want to chill. I don't want to be handled. I don't even want to be here any more. I want you to grow the fuck up and stop being a moron. It's going to cost us the remains of our friendship, very probably at this point, but I don't care: you're too smart and have too much to contribute to continue acting like this. If it's bad enough that someone you've seen once this century can muster up this much emotion about it, imagine what the guy in the next office feels like, hmm?
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