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From: "Samuel W. Flint" <swflint@flintfam.org>
Subject: Re: [OT] wildcards in autocorrect?
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 11:57:40 -0500
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To: Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com>
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There's something on endless parentheses that will let you generate a correc=
tion abbrev with a keystroke.

Samuel W. Flint
Please forgive any typos as this was composed on a screen keyboard.

> On Mar 28, 2015, at 9:19 AM, Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I make a lot of typing errors (I have an injury to one hand, which impedes=
 bilateral cooperation). In Libreoffice I am able to define wildcard autocor=
rect objects, e.g.:
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> oc.* ---> co.*
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> This will correct ocrrect, ocmputer, ocndition, etc.  Does anyone know a w=
ay to do something similar in Emacs? Right now I am using abbrev mode and de=
fining my errors one by one -- it is a very slow process since I make so man=
y mistakes and have a moderately large vocabulary. =20
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> I am sure this is possible somehow, I just don't know how.
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> thanks as always,
> m
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