Question: Is there any auto-correct that works globally in all (or at least, many) applications? Particularly non-terminal. So for example firefox (like this text box I’m typing into), chat, text editors, word processors etc?

Example: I often type “teh” when I meant “the”. I would like to have that change automagically.

I’m sure somewhere in my life (not in linux — maybe on mac?) I had the ability to right click on a red-underlined misspelled word in any application and select “always change this fix this to…” and then it would.

Autokey is the only close suggestion I can find. But I guess you have to tell it about every single replacement through the configuration? Are there any pre-made configurations of common misspellings?

How is the performance if you end up with dozens, hundreds, of phrases for it to look out for?

Not looking for: a code linter, command line corrections or grammerly which are the suggestions I have found when searching.

  • catloaf@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    If the libraries are available, programs that implement spell check will use them automatically.