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   Stan Brown to Ken Blake   
   Re: requst for easy to implement spell c   
   10 Feb 22 08:11:02   
   
   XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.usage.english   
   From: the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm   
      
   On Wed, 09 Feb 2022 14:14:56 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:   
   >   
   > On Wed, 9 Feb 2022 12:58:01 -0800, Stan Brown   
   >  wrote:   
      
   > >BTW, for plain text I use Vim's spell checker. It has a feature that   
   > >e.g. Word seems to lack: you can mark a valid word to be flagged as   
   > >possibly erroneous. I do this with words that i commonly mistype,   
   > >such as "ting" for "thing".   
   >   
   > It's not a spell checker, but you might want to use the free   
   > AutoHotkey and have it correct words you commonly mistype. It can   
   > automatically change "ting" to "thing" anywhere it finds it.   
      
   Great minds think alike. I've done that for years. It's effective   
   when I'm typing, but not when text comes in from OCR or other means.   
      
   --   
   Stan Brown, Tehachapi, California, USA         https://BrownMath.com/   
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