Question: Is there any auto-correct that works globally in all (or at least, many) applications? Particularly non-terminal. So for example firefox (like this text box I’m typing into), chat, text editors, word processors etc?
Example: I often type “teh” when I meant “the”. I would like to have that change automagically.
I’m sure somewhere in my life (not in linux — maybe on mac?) I had the ability to right click on a red-underlined misspelled word in any application and select “always change this fix this to…” and then it would.
Autokey is the only close suggestion I can find. But I guess you have to tell it about every single replacement through the configuration? Are there any pre-made configurations of common misspellings?
How is the performance if you end up with dozens, hundreds, of phrases for it to look out for?
Not looking for: a code linter, command line corrections or grammerly which are the suggestions I have found when searching.
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Yes, any program that implements spell checking will use the system libraries, like aspell, ispell, hunspell, hspell, and enchant. And Qt and GTK have Sonnet and gspell, respectively, to implement spell checking in their applications.
soooo how do I access it?
If the libraries are available, programs that implement spell check will use them automatically.
emacs-everywhere with a nicely crafted flyspell config? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)