Subject: Re: Commit: A boat load of things
From: WJCarpenter (bill-abisource@carpenter.ORG)
Date: Tue Mar 06 2001 - 17:46:50 CST
sam> (c) Ignore all instances of that word once. This option seems
sam> entirely pointless, and is used in no other software I know of.
sam> (d) Ignore all instances of that word permanently. This is
sam> slightly better than (c), but is also used in no other software I
sam> can think of, and would obviate the need for Ignore all.
I think when discussing this stuff, we should be slightly more
precise, along at least the following dimensions. I can already see
folks talking past each other because of different or vague
terminology.
1. There is on-the-fly spell-checking with context-menu "Ignore
All" and "Add". There is the theoretical possibility of there
being context-menu "Ignore".
2. There is bulk spell-checking with menu items for "Ignore", "Ignore
All", and "Add". (By "bulk spell-checking", I mean the pop-up
dialog that checks the entire document. You get there via a
menu/keyboard/mouse action of some kind.)
3. "Once" can mean "one pass of the bulk spell-checker" or it can
mean "one use of the context-menu".
4. "Permanently" can mean "for the rest of this bulk spell-check
run", "for the rest of this AbiWord session", or "persistent even
if I reboot my computer", with variations including "for all
AbiWord documents" or "for this AbiWord document". (There's one
more case I don't care much about because I think it's {{some
unpleasant word here}} ... "for all uses of this spelling
technology in any application on this computer".)
PS:- Don't get me started on what spell-checkers have on their
various buttons and menus. We have what looks like the industry
standard approach, but after all these years of using the things, the
terse labels leave me wondering exactly what the spell-checker would
do. My favorite bad example is spell-checkers which offer options of
"Change" and "Update". Huh?
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