Wanted

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Wanted: A shortcut key to zip backwards to the last mispelleded word in a text document. (And, forward too would be nice, but backwards is most important.) Next time you are writing stuff, think about how cool this would be.

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8 thoughts on “Wanted

  1. Did you put in an OpenOffice.org enhancement request? I didn’t see an issue link that would allow me to vote for it.

    Those requests do work. I was the requestor for the the “overbar” markup request [1]. The team had to get a revision to the ODF file format to make it happen, but you’ll notice that OO.o now has overbar.

    [1] We need it for electronic standards documents.

  2. I’m not an emacs guy, but I think that would be pretty easy to do in a script, using aspell or something similar. I wrote a script in Nedit to jump to next/previous C function definition, it was pretty short and straightforward…

  3. Alex: Does this mean that you spell EVERY word wrong? Because Ctl+left goes back one word at a time.

    Alan, yeah, it should be. I would even stipulate this: Assume flyspell-mode is on. That means that a word is already marked somehow. This should be EASY in emacs.

  4. “Alex: Does this mean that you spell EVERY word wrong? Because Ctl+left goes back one word at a time.”

    Not every word, but near enough for a bit of hyperbole.

    It should be pretty easy to implement, especially with automatic spell checkers. Surely you can write an emacs script for it?

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