I would rather that we didn't implement such a feature. It seems like a good idea on the surface, but my experiences with "auto-correct" functions in word processors have been less than helpful.
Stephen Gilbert
--- tarquin tarquin@planetunreal.com wrote:
I've been pondering. There are some typos and common spelling mistakes which are no-brainers to catch and fix, but require a lot of grunt work. Would it be possible, or desirable, to have a system which does a search for one particular error at a time, eg "recieve", and corrects all the pages it finds in batches, of say 20, to avoid loading the server? Obviously, this will deal with only a fraction of the overall typo checking, since many things depend on context (eg "its" / "it's").
Would this be best implemented as a system tool, or as a seperate script (like the Eason's Bible Dictionary import)?
-- tarquin
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