I suggest filing a feature request to recommend Apple create a standardized way to share that ignore list among all applications. Mike Crawford mdcrawf...@gmail.com
Seeking Beta Testers for Warp Life for iOS http://www.warplife.com/beta-testing On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 11:55 AM, Alan Snyder <applemail832...@cbfiddle.com> wrote: > Good point. Indeed, it is the responsibility of the app to save the list of > ignored words, and there is an API it can use to restore the list into > NSSpellChecker. > > Apple’s own apps are inconsistent. Pages makes the ignored words persistent > (although the words do not take effect immediately on reopening a document, > presumably a bug). TextEdit and Mail do not. > > Part of the implementation of persistent ignored words is to provide a way to > remove words from the list. Pages does this. Perhaps that is just too much > work to support in other apps. > > Alan > > > > >> On Aug 22, 2017, at 8:43 PM, Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote: >> >> >> >>> On Aug 22, 2017, at 6:26 PM, Alan Snyder <applemail832...@cbfiddle.com >>> <mailto:applemail832...@cbfiddle.com>> wrote: >>> >>> The documentation that I have seen for the Ignore Spelling contextual menu >>> item says that it applies to the current document, but does not say one way >>> or the other whether the setting is persistent. As far as I can tell, the >>> setting is not persistent. That strikes me as odd. Why would one want to >>> ignore the word only in one editing session? I imagine using this command >>> for words that are correct in context but not correct in all contexts. Any >>> thoughts? >> >> I don't think the spell-checker knows how to persist data [the list of >> ignored words] into the text being checked. In other words, it doesn't know >> how or where you're saving that text. If you want this persistent behavior, >> which I agree is good, you'll have to save the state of that setting, plus >> the list of ignored words, into your document somehow. (I don't know how to >> do this; I've never worked with the Cocoa spell-check API.) >> >> —Jens > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/mdcrawford%40gmail.com > > This email sent to mdcrawf...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
