auto-spellcheck must be disableable

[davidascher]

on snow leopard anyway, i keep getting autocorrection of commit messages, which are at best hilarious and at worse just really annoying.

[jacobpierce]

+1 (on OS X 10.7) -- autocorrect is enabled, but the contextual menu required to disable it is... disabled.

[Menencia]

To disable auto-spellcheck, you need to have focus on a field and you will be able to disable it via the contextual menu (which won't be disabled).

[STRML]

This autocorrects anything from "minify" ("magnify") to jQuery ("query"), etc. This should be an options in Preferences that is by default set to off.

To disable it, I found I had to start typing into a text box, then right-click and disable it. Not something many users are likely to find.

[kybishop]

+1, autocorrect should not be on by default

[klrmn]

+1, autocorrect should not be on by default

[kchristensen]

Please consider making this an option, it's driving me batty!

[yonatancups]

+1, should be off by default. Is anyone doing anything with this? I see this issue is over 3 years old and still exists

[kybishop]

another +1 more than a year after my last . . I'd like to add that disabling autocorrect on the field does not stick for me . . autocorrect manages to turn itself back on after a restart.

[klrmn]

i agree that disabling autocorrect doesn't stick.

and put "fixup" in the dictionary!

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 10:33 AM, kybishop [email protected] wrote:

another +1 more than a year after my last . . I'd like to add that
disabling autocorrect on the field does not stick for me . . autocorrect
manages to turn itself back on after a restart.

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[patrickkunka]

+1 still not disabled by default

[edorsey]

+1, super annoying

[mikeatlas]

👍 +1

[incandescentman]

As far as I can tell there's no way to disable it permanently.

[danlwarren]

Yeah this is just really annoying and hard to understand.

[euharrison]

👍 +1

[lenochware]

+1

[akshayl]

+1

[jwhartley]

+1

[lemmon]

+1 incredibly annoying

[DanHickstein]

+1
I've been burned by this so many times. "Changelog" -> "changeling" was today's amusement. My collaborators think that I'm insane.

The worst part is that it will autocorrect the last word after you press the commit button, so you can't even see what madness you have just committed.

[danbanswer]

+1

[raymondbutcher]

+1

[jamielob]

+1

How is this still an issue?

[jamielob]

I've just tweeted to @github about this to see if we can get some traction on it:

https://twitter.com/JamieLoberman/status/730648848532537344

[steven-johnson]

+1

[greggman]

+1 I can't believe this feature is still on by default for 4 years. It's never once corrected anything useful. It's only corrected the wrong stuff. Today's was "ctor" -> "actor" 😠

[greggman]

So the response I got from github bringing this up was

The Spelling and Grammar checker is actually a built in feature of Mac OS X, so we're not able to disable it in GitHub Desktop by default. The good news is that you can turn it off globally.

If you go to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Text and then uncheck "Correct spelling automatically," you should be all set.

So that solution works for me.

Sadly I'm not so sure about the excuse given that NONE of my other apps have this issue.

In any case I turned it off at the OS level

[DanHickstein]

Works for me too! The red underline is still there, so you can still see potential misspellings, they are just not automatically corrected, which is perfect.

And I agree that this behavior is not seen in many other apps. The overly-aggressive autocorrect in Apple's own Messages app is not fixed by this setting.

[dpilafian]

phantomjs --> phantoms
onclick --> o'clock
stringify --> stringily

[m-payne]

+1 If you tally all of the shame-points in this thread and apply it to the programmer's stats then they are officially encumbered. -10 points to development ability. -10 geek cred. +10 depression.

[saulgray]

+1, cmon github, wtf.
Why is this not in the settings menu? And why is this not disabled by default? And why the hell did you not modify the dictionary to have words in it like nodejs?

[euharrison]

Thanks @greggman

1 - System preferences
2 - Uncheck Correct spelling automatically

[dmgroppe]

I love GitHub Desktop, but the autocorrect on by default is super annoying. It is also puzzling that I can disable it via the Edit->Spelling and Grammar menu, but then if I close and re-open GitHub, desktop autocorrect is back on.

[axelpale]

+1 fuuuuu

[mishalshah]

+10 really annoying

[rbnchung]

+1

[ebrohman]

wip -> rip