Can the spelling checker be trusted?

[Alan T Litchfield]

Didn't happen to have white stripes and go by the name of Freddie did  
it?

Could explain explain the resurgence ;)

Alan

On 25/05/2010, at 10:35 AM, Scott Prentice wrote:

> Hi Jenny...
>
> This brings up my memory of "the evil dot." Back in 1995 or 6(?) (FM  
> 4 or 5) I ran into a file that exhibited similar strange behavior. I  
> could search (forward) for a word that I knew was in the file, and  
> it would never find it. But, if I searched backwards it found the  
> word without trouble. Spell checking had similar issues. I found  
> that if the cursor was after a certain point in the file, the word  
> could be found. After a bit of thrashing about, I discovered that  
> the culprit was a period (the evil dot). If I deleted this period  
> everything worked fine.
>
> What was happening is that the period was like a black hole that  
> caused any processing to return to the beginning of the file. I  
> could copy this character into any other file and the same thing  
> would happen .. but if I saved the file to MIF, there was nothing  
> apparently special about it .. just a simple period.
>
> I saved the period off in a file for later use (don't ask) .. but  
> somewhere along the way it was lost (maybe it found its way to your  
> file).
>
> I suppose it's possible that you have a similar situation .. see if  
> you also can't search for this misspelling .. and see how far away  
> from the word you can move the cursor and have it still found. Try  
> searching backwards. Who knows.
>
> I've not seen this behavior again in FM, so I don't think it's a  
> serious problem, but maybe it's making a resurgence. Or maybe this  
> is a totally different problem.
>
> Cheers,
>
> ...scott
>
> Scott Prentice
> Leximation, Inc.
> www.leximation.com
> +1.415.485.1892
>
>

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