On 8/16/06, Simetrical Simetrical+wikitech@gmail.com wrote:
Backspace. That's the convention in word processors for when it magically converts something you typed to something else. For instance, if you type a URL-looking thing in Word, then hit space, you'll get blue and underlining. If you immediately hit backspace, the blue and underlining disappears, but the space you entered remains: no actual character is erased, it reinterprets the key as meaning "undo the last automatic conversion" if that's applicable.
Yeah, very commonly happens to me with ellipses (...) and various niceties like 1st, TM, (C) etc.
I think you can no longer do that as soon as you hit any other key, though. It has to be immediate.
Undo (Ctrl+z) still works. All those things are basically autocorrect, so it's called "undo autocorrect".
Steve