email client with autocorrect?
Does anyone use an email client that has decent autocorrect? I am a terrible typist who makes many similar mistakes over and over. In thunderbird, correcting my errors takes about 30-50% of my total message composition time. I know there are reasons to hate autocorrect, but in my case it's a big timesaver. Any suggestions? Thank you! Matt
You could possibly try voice to text it can't be any worse than the auto-completion on my android where on some messages I can spend %60 to 70% my message time trying to get it to let me put in what I want. I think your looking for auto-completion. take a look at:https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/text-complete/ On 10/07/2016 08:54 AM, Matt Price via talk wrote:
Does anyone use an email client that has decent autocorrect? I am a terrible typist who makes many similar mistakes over and over. In thunderbird, correcting my errors takes about 30-50% of my total message composition time. I know there are reasons to hate autocorrect, but in my case it's a big timesaver. Any suggestions?
Thank you! Matt
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On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 08:54:53AM -0400, Matt Price via talk wrote:
Does anyone use an email client that has decent autocorrect? I am a terrible typist who makes many similar mistakes over and over. In thunderbird, correcting my errors takes about 30-50% of my total message composition time. I know there are reasons to hate autocorrect, but in my case it's a big timesaver. Any suggestions?
I guess mutt+ispell is not what you have in mind. -- Len Sorensen
I use Vim's spell feature, and Vim is called by Mutt. When I type wrong spelling, Vim highlights it in red. -- William On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 08:54:53AM -0400, Matt Price via talk wrote:
Does anyone use an email client that has decent autocorrect? I am a terrible typist who makes many similar mistakes over and over. In thunderbird, correcting my errors takes about 30-50% of my total message composition time. I know there are reasons to hate autocorrect, but in my case it's a big timesaver. Any suggestions?
Thank you! Matt
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On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 8:54 AM, Matt Price via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Does anyone use an email client that has decent autocorrect? I am a terrible typist who makes many similar mistakes over and over. In thunderbird, correcting my errors takes about 30-50% of my total message composition time. I know there are reasons to hate autocorrect, but in my case it's a big timesaver. Any suggestions?
I am also a trrible typist and on top of it a horrible speller. There was a great plugin for Thunderbird[0] but i hasn't been updated since 31. So now I just have the *Check spelling before sending* option checked. It should be in Options -> Composition -> Spelling. On a somewhat related note there are also some good command line utilities I like to use: * Bash's Shopt cdspell[1] will fix mistakes like `cd /etc/psotfix` automagically. * thefuck[1] correct the previous command like `aptget install python` to `apt-get install python`. [0]: <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/mms-auto-correct/> [1]: <https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/The-Shopt-Builtin.html#The-Shopt-Builtin> [2]: <https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck>
Just saw these last couple of responses. Thanks Myles for the suggestions. As of Tuesday I've made the switch from Thunderbird to mu4e for my work account. So far it's fantastic, so I definitely recommend it for Emacs users. The ability to store links in org files is a lifesaver, and helped me to stop using my Inbox as a ToDo list. And I get Emacs autocorrect (abbrev-mode), which is primitive but pretty useful for me. I have zsh instead of bash and it has an autocorrect feature that I don't quite understand, but helps me out from time to time. On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Myles Braithwaite via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 8:54 AM, Matt Price via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Does anyone use an email client that has decent autocorrect? I am a terrible typist who makes many similar mistakes over and over. In thunderbird, correcting my errors takes about 30-50% of my total message composition time. I know there are reasons to hate autocorrect, but in my case it's a big timesaver. Any suggestions?
I am also a trrible typist and on top of it a horrible speller. There was a great plugin for Thunderbird[0] but i hasn't been updated since 31. So now I just have the *Check spelling before sending* option checked. It should be in Options -> Composition -> Spelling.
On a somewhat related note there are also some good command line utilities I like to use:
* Bash's Shopt cdspell[1] will fix mistakes like `cd /etc/psotfix` automagically. * thefuck[1] correct the previous command like `aptget install python` to `apt-get install python`.
[0]: <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/mms-auto-correct/
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On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Myles Braithwaite via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
I am also a trrible typist and on top of it a horrible speller. There was a great plugin for Thunderbird[0] but i hasn't been updated since 31. So now I just have the *Check spelling before sending* option checked. It should be in Options -> Composition -> Spelling.
Yes, that's what I have -- it's not nearly as good as the old autocorrect
plugin.
That check before send is awesome for also catching the things you should have said better or not at all. If only Thunderbird would fix their editor and its random text style switching ... Stewart
Stewart Russell wrote:
If only Thunderbird would fix their editor and its random text style switching ...
You should checkout [Markdown Here](http://markdown-here.com/), it let's you write Markdown in the Thunderbird editor that get's converted cleanly to HTML, that will actually look good on all clients (even the Voldemort of email clients). One really handy thing is it also supports GitHub style code blocks. Like this would be converted to <pre><code> and nice syntax highlighting: ```python
import this The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters
Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit. ```
Huh, that's pretty neat. Seems ot work in gmail too. Thanks Myles! On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 11:06 AM, Myles Braithwaite 👾 via talk < talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Stewart Russell wrote:
If only Thunderbird would fix their editor and its random text style switching ...
You should checkout [Markdown Here](http://markdown-here.com/), it let's you write Markdown in the Thunderbird editor that get's converted cleanly to HTML, that will actually look good on all clients (even the Voldemort of email clients).
One really handy thing is it also supports GitHub style code blocks. Like this would be converted to <pre><code> and nice syntax highlighting:
```python
import this The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters
Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit. ``` --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
On 2016-10-27 11:06 AM, Myles Braithwaite 👾 wrote:
You should checkout [Markdown Here](http://markdown-here.com/)
Thanks; I've been using it for a couple of years. It's great if you only compose in text only mode. Using it in styled mode is hit-or-miss, and if you ever have to pasted text styled in another application, it can get very messy and broken. Although I use Markdown a lot, I do feel that it's oversold as a near-universal editing solution. It's hardly a rich editing experience; visible control codes are a mid-80s WordStar level of friendly. It also has some glaring gaps, like a complete inability to define internal hyperlinks without resorting to raw HTML. Any attempt to standardize the myriad flavours usually results in (myriad+1) flavours and grumpiness from Gruber. cheers, Stewart
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Stewart C. Russell -
Stewart Russell
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William Park