Ok - I wasn't going to reply to this node. I expected others to make my argument:

Unless we can agree on what non-dictionary words we want added, it is going to be annoying to constantly see highlighted words that aren't actually mispelled. Having a personal "ignore" list is likely not feasible.

Instead, what others have said is just to use something else before posting. While this works and is good advice as an interim solution - I think in the long run we should be adding features of convenience. That is the reason I wrote Monastic Slush Fund. Why not use money monks contribute to make these kinds of features happen?

Cheers - L~R

Update: I do not want to give the impression that I am necessarily for or against a spell checker. In addition to my rationale against it, demerphq points out it may be a significant load on the servers. My point is that we should not summarily dismiss feature requests because they are hard or because no one feels like working on them. We should consider using the monies contributed by monks to implement features that are in high demand.


In reply to Re: Automatic spell checking when previewing by Limbic~Region
in thread Automatic spell checking when previewing by gri6507

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