autocorrect

How can I intercept and correct keypresses at a low level?

I keep typing "t eh" instead of " the" which is, of course, annoying in the amount of time it takes me to correct myself. The obvious answer is "Learn to type, noob!" or at least to type more slowly and/or more correctly. This error is frighteningly consistent so it appears I've trained my muscle memory for that pattern already. But I...

Visual Studio - How to disable autoformat/correct while running macro?

When running a macro that changes the selected text, tags are automatically closed and the text formatted. How can I prevent that from happening? For example, wrapping text in a tag: DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text = String.Format("<tag>{0}</tag>", DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text) Ends up with two closing tags: <tag>Text</tag></...

iPhone SDK: disable auto creation of dot (.) in text field (or textview)

Hi, I've disabled auto-correction type for my text field, and it does not show any other auto-correction, but it still automatically creates a dot (.) when I press space key twice. For example, if I write "test" and press space key twice, it automatically changes into "test. " Anyone knows how to disable this feature? Thanks a lot. ...

Autocorrect NSString on iPhone

Basically what I want to do is to use Cocoa's autocorrection feature on NSString. E.g. [string autocorrect] would return what it text field shows in a popup Is it possible? ...

Stop Excel from changing cell contents, ever

I work with card numbers, like credit card and ID numbers. We do not do any calculations with card numbers, obviously. They are "text." I format them as text, I type them like text. I know how that works. Excel doesn't care. 16 digit card numbers get their last digit turned into a zero, changed into scientific notation, stupid stuff tha...

Toggling UITextAutoCorrectionType WHEN a UITextField is being edited

I want to turn auto-correction on/off based on the content in the text field. For example, if the user is typing a phrase like "Machine tools" I want auto-correction to be on (for the rest of the words she's gonna type) but if I sense the beginnings of - say - a web address like "www.mach.." I want to turn auto-correction off. I tried ...

HTML - How can i disable auto text correction in my TEXTAREA???

My textarea contains C# code, so i get red underlines all over the place, is there any way to disable auto correction on a TEXTAREA in html code? Thank ...

Can you programmatically accept a spelling correction in UITextView?

I have a button that inserts a character into a UITextView. I want this button to behave as the spacebar button does; I want the pending autocorrect suggestion to be accepted upon pressing it. Can this be done? If so, how? Thanks! ...