Spell check as you type
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spell check
a built in spell checker would be a really excellent feature. something that underlines misspelled words as you type them the way microsoft word does.
I know some people dont appreciate the real-time spell checking feature in word, since it makes just as much sense to run a spell checker on the whole document before you print it. but IM conversations are far more real-time than word-processing, and I think that AIM would be the perfect place for a spell checker like that. I often wish I had caught my typos and spelling errors before was too late.
I think a built in spell checker would be perfect.
I know some people dont appreciate the real-time spell checking feature in word, since it makes just as much sense to run a spell checker on the whole document before you print it. but IM conversations are far more real-time than word-processing, and I think that AIM would be the perfect place for a spell checker like that. I often wish I had caught my typos and spelling errors before was too late.
I think a built in spell checker would be perfect.
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dictionary.com?
I've noticed that on yahoo's game "Literati" which is basically a clone of scrabble, they use dictionary.com as their dictionary file, I don't see why we couldn't have this option as an alternative for users who don't have office installed.
You guys should contact the creator's of Spell Magic.
http://www.alcodasoftware.com/
It checks words as you type just like microsoft word.
This would be great.
Thanks,
Will
http://www.alcodasoftware.com/
It checks words as you type just like microsoft word.
This would be great.
Thanks,
Will
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Alternative...
Spell checking is definitely a great thing for AIM... however, a lot of the time when I'm sending IMs the #1 thing I care about is getting the IM sent as soon as possible (especially longer ones). I'm probably not terribly likely to take the few extra seconds to go back and check for underlined words and change them (especially in a heated debate -- which is when you'd want to come acress as the most intelligent ).
A different way to do spell checking (or a way to do it in addition to inline Word-style checking) would be similar to the way the spell checker plugin for Gaim works. Rather than checking your words against a dictionary, the user sets up some words they commonly mispell, and what they should be replaced with.
For example, I often type "ot" instead of "to", so I would enter "ot" as what to look for, and it would automatically be replaced with "to", no work neccessary on my part.
This also can let you have common acronyms such as "brb" automatically expanded, which I saw as another feature request on this board.
As an addition to the Word-style spell checking, I think this would be a good, fast, user-customizable feature.
~Greg
A different way to do spell checking (or a way to do it in addition to inline Word-style checking) would be similar to the way the spell checker plugin for Gaim works. Rather than checking your words against a dictionary, the user sets up some words they commonly mispell, and what they should be replaced with.
For example, I often type "ot" instead of "to", so I would enter "ot" as what to look for, and it would automatically be replaced with "to", no work neccessary on my part.
This also can let you have common acronyms such as "brb" automatically expanded, which I saw as another feature request on this board.
As an addition to the Word-style spell checking, I think this would be a good, fast, user-customizable feature.
~Greg
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