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baldwindavid
auto-spellcheck must be disableable
on snow leopard anyway, i keep getting autocorrection of commit messages, which are at best hilarious and at worse just really annoying.
+1 (on OS X 10.7) -- autocorrect is enabled, but the contextual menu required to disable it is... disabled.
To disable auto-spellcheck, you need to have focus on a field and you will be able to disable it via the contextual menu (which won't be disabled).
This autocorrects anything from "minify" ("magnify") to jQuery ("query"), etc. This should be an options in Preferences that is by default set to off.
To disable it, I found I had to start typing into a text box, then right-click and disable it. Not something many users are likely to find.
+1, should be off by default. Is anyone doing anything with this? I see this issue is over 3 years old and still exists
another +1 more than a year after my last . . I'd like to add that disabling autocorrect on the field does not stick for me . . autocorrect manages to turn itself back on after a restart.
i agree that disabling autocorrect doesn't stick.
and put "fixup" in the dictionary!
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 10:33 AM, kybishop [email protected] wrote:
another +1 more than a year after my last . . I'd like to add that disabling autocorrect on the field does not stick for me . . autocorrect manages to turn itself back on after a restart.
— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/baldwindavid/github-for-mac-issues/issues/25#issuecomment-88180351 .
+1 I've been burned by this so many times. "Changelog" -> "changeling" was today's amusement. My collaborators think that I'm insane.
The worst part is that it will autocorrect the last word after you press the commit button, so you can't even see what madness you have just committed.
I've just tweeted to @github about this to see if we can get some traction on it:
https://twitter.com/JamieLoberman/status/730648848532537344
+1 I can't believe this feature is still on by default for 4 years. It's never once corrected anything useful. It's only corrected the wrong stuff. Today's was "ctor" -> "actor" 😠
So the response I got from github bringing this up was
The Spelling and Grammar checker is actually a built in feature of Mac OS X, so we're not able to disable it in GitHub Desktop by default. The good news is that you can turn it off globally.
If you go to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Text and then uncheck "Correct spelling automatically," you should be all set.
So that solution works for me.
Sadly I'm not so sure about the excuse given that NONE of my other apps have this issue.
In any case I turned it off at the OS level
Works for me too! The red underline is still there, so you can still see potential misspellings, they are just not automatically corrected, which is perfect.
And I agree that this behavior is not seen in many other apps. The overly-aggressive autocorrect in Apple's own Messages app is not fixed by this setting.
+1 If you tally all of the shame-points in this thread and apply it to the programmer's stats then they are officially encumbered. -10 points to development ability. -10 geek cred. +10 depression.
