On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 12:58:52PM +1200, Thomas CLive Richards wrote: > > > 3.- Spellchecker. A "replace all" button would be nice. > > > > It would not, IMHO. I have rceived student essays on Plato where > > every instance of the philosopher's name was spelt "plateau", not to > > mention a paper on the famous political philosopher "Thomas Hobbies". > > OK, these were problems between chair and keyboard, but I still feel > > that "replace all" is for editing programs, not text documents. > > Though I suppose in a case like yours, where you're dealing with very > > long texts, it would be useful. > > very useful. My spelling is really bad. I might have a word spelt > incorrectly 300 times in my docment. Clicking once is a lot easier than > having to click 300 times ;)
I've already WONTFIXed this request in bugzilla. You have find and replace: if you make consistent spelling errors, and you are positive you don't need to check them manually, use that dialog. john
