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From: dl@ibiza.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher)
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Subject: Re: Re: World's best word processor
Keywords: spellcheckers
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Date: 2 Jul 89 01:32:46 GMT
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# One thing WP did well is their spell checker--at least when
# compared with the latest in WORD from uSoft.
# 
# I too am an unimpressed WP user. How does the spellchecker
# in Wordstar compare?

I am an old time WS user (first use-CP/M 1980) who has been
drifting toward WP. One of my biggest complaints about WS5 is
the spell checker. Now, I can't spell, and I know it. So I
often stop after I type a word and try to look up the correct
spelling, in a futile attempt to learn the correct way.

You can't do that in WS. It INSISTS on checking the spelling
of the SPACE the cursor in on, not the word. Now in WS4.0, the
speller did the same thing, but the thesaurus worked the way I
wanted. Then they 'fixed' IT too. That, combined with the fact
WS5 cannot run in the available memeory of my machine without
disabling features, has driven me to WP.

Both programs suffer from the fact that AFTER they spell check
a word, they jump forward to the next one, leaving a host of
blank spaces and CRs between (if in fact you are at the {visible}
end of your text, as I am while typing) where you is, and
where you was. But, I can write a WP macro to get back to
where I want to be.

BTW does anybody have a spellchecker that works over Procomm,
so I can stop making a fool of myself on my postings?