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Re: Spelling and spell-checking
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Sharon Kimble |
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Re: Spelling and spell-checking |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Mar 2016 18:40:40 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.92 (gnu/linux) |
Thorsten Grothe <grothe_news@e.mail.de> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Am 11.03.2016 um 12:53 schrieb Sharon Kimble:
>> How can I have words that I type be auto-corrected to what I want
>> please? I'm specifically thinking of words like these -
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> im = I'm
>> ive = I've
>> thats = that's
>> Thats = That's
>> cant = can't
>> monday = Monday
>> tuesday = Tuesday, etc
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> and other specific words.
>
> I have configured flyspell like this:
>
> (setq flyspell-abbrev-p t)
> (setq flyspell-use-global-abbrev-table-p t)
>
> I'm german, when I have a word like "autobaahn" flyspell suggests "Autobahn",
> when I accept the
> suggestion, flyspell puts the word in the global-abbrev-table and saves it.
> Next time I write
> "autobaahn" the word is corrected automatically to "Autobahn"
>
> P.S. You can edit the abbrev-table and set your preferred auto-corrections
> per hand if you like.
>
Thanks Thorsten, this is along the right lines. This is what I now do, I
edit them 'M-x edit-abbrevs' and when done, save them 'C-c C-c'. And
then they're ready for action.
Thanks
Sharon.
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