A month into Lion and I can say that my anticipation was well-founded, I love auto correct in Lion. Adium doesn’t yet support it and it’s hugely frustrating, I don’t know how I lived without it.
I’m the exact opposite. Of all Lion’s “innovative” features, autocorrect is one of the most aggravating. It’s intrusive, overzealous, at times erratic, and more often than not it auto“corrects” incorrectly.1 On iOS, where the keys you’re pressing are 5 mm wide, it makes perfect sense — it compensates for the imprecision of hitting at such targets with digits that are much wider; on a real keyboard, it’s less necessary, and it encourages laziness and sloppy typing. Thankfully, it’s easily turned off.2
By far the worst sin, though, and the one that exposes just how poorly thought-out the backporting was, is the fact that it’s only partially controllable using the keyboard. A suggested autocorrection can be cancelled by hitting ⎋, but once the autocorrection has been made, you have to use your mouse to reverse it. When you’re touching a screen, this is fine, but when you’re using a keyboard, this isn’t an acceptable option.
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In this, it joins Microsoft Office’s autocorrect feature, which has been aggravating people since its introduction, and is just as overzealous. ↩
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And if you know your ⌥ modifier combinations, you can also turn off the “hold for alternatives” option. ↩
(Source: valhallaisland)
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koralatov reblogged this from valhallaisland and added:
I’m the exact opposite. Of all Lion’s “innovative” features, autocorrect is one of the most aggravating. It’s intrusive,...
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