Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.advocacy
Subject: Re: Unbelievable: no spell-check, Microsoft? Really?
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 10:46:50 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 41
Message-ID: <v73naa$ocpk$5@dont-email.me>
References: <v6k6h7$1gss5$1@dont-email.me> <v6m6qt$1ur0u$2@dont-email.me>
 <v6mg7n$20ff2$3@dont-email.me> <v73m6k$pnga$1@dont-email.me>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Injection-Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 19:46:50 +0200 (CEST)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="da06c33a0e24710f2409bdb56f35c7df";
	logging-data="799540"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+eHEh7ExDU73xBkrj2F/b6/H8I/HN+XEA="
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird
Cancel-Lock: sha1:Az8bC8s+hTWcqV30P7Cqxvbfafw=
In-Reply-To: <v73m6k$pnga$1@dont-email.me>
Content-Language: en-CA
Bytes: 2784

On 2024-07-15 10:27, Tom Elam wrote:
> On 7/10/2024 1:26 PM, Alan wrote:
>> On 2024-07-10 07:45, Tom Elam wrote:
>>> On 7/9/2024 4:28 PM, Alan wrote:
>>>> 'Spellcheck in Notepad begins rolling out to Windows Insiders
>>>> Written By Dave Grochocki
>>>> published March 21, 2024
>>>>
>>>> UPDATE 4/9: The below update for Notepad (version 11.2402.22.0) that 
>>>> introduces spellcheck has begun rolling out to Windows Insiders in 
>>>> the Beta and Release Preview Channels.'
>>>>
>>>> <https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/03/21/spellcheck-in-notepad-begins-rolling-out-to-windows-insiders/>
>>>>
>>>> macOS has had system-wide spell checking since 2009.
>>>
>>> Windows 10 has spell check, as does Windows 11. In Windows 11 it's 
>>> Settings/Time and Language/Typing. It works in Notepad. Not sure why 
>>> Notepad needs its own.
>>
>> You can't imagine when an app to take notes...
>>
>> ...in ENGLISH (or whatever language the user requires)...
>>
>> ...would need a spell chacker.
>>
>> The whole point is that to date, Notepad hasn't been able to USE the 
>> system wide spellchecker, Liarboy.
> 
> In my defense I don't think I ever used Notepad to create a document. I 
> did use Wordpad a few times and it did spellcheck. I also used Notepad 
> to view text documents and never needed spellcheck for those.
> 
> BTW, what's a spell chacker? (I note that chacker is a spelling error 
> caught by the MS system-wide spellcheck and highlighted in Thunderbird. 
> Did your beloved Mac not catch that? LOL at you Liarboy)
> 

Actually it DID catch "chacker".

I failed to catch that it had caught it.