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add ability to leave highlighted words for later
Similar to issue #24 , but not. I think there is a lot of value in having the unacceptable words highlighted, but allowing the user to easily continue without removing them. I've noticed that I can leave the word there by hitting the down arrow which jumps the cursor ahead by a few characters and disables the highlight. I'm not sure why that works, but I'm glad that it does.
I'd rather the ability to just highlight the bad words and continue. Then the choice to leave them is intentional, but the app will continue to point the issue out.
Since the highlighting in use at present is just text selection, perhaps a different marker, such as the squiggly underline used pretty much everywhere else in the GUI world, could be employed?
I was thinking about this more and it does have some UI Consequences on the menus. The "Correct" menu currently has "Make Sound" and "Force Select". I think @dmland is correct about swapping to a squiggly underline instead of a selection. I think the menu options would have to become something like "Make Sound", "Highlight", "Force Correct". In this scenario "Force Correct" would have the same behavior as "Force Select" currently does (deleting the word when you try to go past it) but with the squiggly underline only if Highlight was also selected. Highlight handles the squiggly underline.
I think selection is better than underline. I like making it even more obnoxiously visible that you've exited the safe zone. I don't know if it's harder though, and @dmland's absolutely correct that a squiggly underline would be the standard
I think the menu options could stay the same. If "Force correct" is not enabled, it will just highlight by default. Squiggly underline or background color sounds good to me too.