On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 01:17:17PM -0700, Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas wrote:
> (By the way, the reason I used -f rather than —fix is that I can’t
> figure out how to get the iPhone Mail.app to not replace double
> hyphens with an em-dash, or even how to fix it when it does. All of
> the other fancifier stuff can be worked around pretty easily, but
> apparently not that one…)
I don't know anything about Mail.app, but in LibreOffice you can Ctrl-Z
to underdo autocorrect without undoing the characters you typed.
In my experience, autocorrect often is activated when you type a
space or newline, and only looks back a single word at a time. So
with a bit of extra work, you might be able to avoid triggering the
autocorrect on the hyphens. Perhaps something like this?
type: space hyphen space hyphen space f i x space
backspace to delete the spaces
forward arrow past the "fix" before typing another space
I have found that variations of this seems to work with autocorrect on
some systems.
(Or just wait until you're back on a computer with a less annoying mail
client before replying :-)
--
Steven
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