{"id":2807,"date":"2014-07-11T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=2807"},"modified":"2014-07-11T06:12:39","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T10:12:39","slug":"bad-spellers-and-typists-rejoice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=2807","title":{"rendered":"Bad Spellers and Typists Rejoice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Some people are bad spellers or at least consistently have trouble with certain words. Others can spell but are poor typists and constantly mistype words. Some, I suppose, fall into both categories. If any of this describes you, don&#8217;t despair: Bruce Connor has a <a href=\"http:\/\/endlessparentheses.com\/ispell-and-abbrev-the-perfect-auto-correct.html\">solution<\/a> for you. <\/p>\n<p> Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/endlessparentheses.com\/\">Endless Parentheses<\/a> he presents a bit of Elisp that will look up the correct spelling with <code>ispell<\/code> (or <code>aspell<\/code> or whatever you&#8217;re using) and make an abbreviation for your incorrect spelling so that it will be automatically corrected in the future. It&#8217;s probably not for everyone but if you consistently make spelling errors&#x2014;for whatever reason&#x2014;it may be helpful. <\/p>\n<p> Endless Parentheses is a fairly new blog that concentrates on short, mostly weekly, Emacs-oriented posts. As of this writing there are only eight short posts so you might want to read them all. It won&#8217;t take much time and you&#8217;ll probably learn something. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people are bad spellers or at least consistently have trouble with certain words. Others can spell but are poor typists and constantly mistype words. Some, I suppose, fall into both categories. If any of this describes you, don&#8217;t despair: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=2807\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-2807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","tag-emacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2808,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions\/2808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}