287935 - Expand in-line spelling to include autocorrect

Status: NEW

(Core :: Spelling checker, enhancement)

Description

[Miles Libbey]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1

With in-line spelling in 1.1, the next spelling step seems to allow auto-correct
-- to automagically change finger bobbles to the correct word (teh to the, ahve
to have etc).  There is at least one extension that does this today
http://www.supportware.net/mozilla/#ext8, but it is extremely buggy.  MSFT Word
(and this extension) offers users the opportunity to enter autocorrectable words
and its corresponding substitution.  Outlook, Eudora both offer autocorrect
functionality

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Miles Libbey]

This is an enhancement request -- for a feature that exists in most major email
clients, and probably should not be auto-resolved.

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

In vim, I'm using the wordlist in <http://web.informatik.uni-bonn.de/II/ag-klein/people/zach/vim/programs/acl/vimrc.wordlist> for common mispellings. The normal spellcheck is not usable for this purpose.

Comment 4

[Kevin Brosnan]

Looks to be the only bug for this marking new.

Comment 5

[Jon B]

In the Ctrl+K spell checking window, you can have a Replace All option.  You should also be able to set that as an autocorrect rule.

Comment 8

[Matt Price]

Any chance this bug will be picked up in the foreseeable future?  I would really like to see autocorrect in thunderbird -- there's an ancient plugin available but it's quite buggy with recent thunderbird releases.  Can't the logic just be plundered from openoffice or evolution (not that I'm a coder...)?

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

xref bug 518535

Comment 10

[Biju]

Additional to this I wish the browser also auto suggest list of words while typing. 
See Bug 1064141

Comment 11

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

Mass bug change to replace various 'parity' whiteboard flags with the new canonical keywords. (See bug 1443764 comment 13.)