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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
I really dont see the need, say you are doing a spell check and you mistakenly replace the word xxx with yyy. All that means is you stop the spell check, run a search and replace for yyy, and replace all matches either one-by-one or automatically, depending.
There seems to be no need to lose all the previous correct spelling changes, just to undo a single bad change.
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I have occasionally accidentally double-clicked on the 'correct' button. It went by quick and I didn't get a chance to see what word I was 'correcting' with that second click. In that case, all I know is it was after the intended corrected word, and before the next word in the list, but that still leaves it wide open.
Another example (less likely but I've done it
). I skip four or five words because I need to check something, but the following several words I
know need to be corrected. They are words I know that the first suggestion is the correct one I want, so I hit correct the amount of times. Only then do I notice that after the first correct, the word to change went UP rather than DOWN, so I was actually correcting the words I skipped. Yes, this is a lack of attention, but it CAN happen. So, I need to lose all that I've already done, and start over.
Just to laugh (now that it’s over) I once had a book that had reproduced Scottish brogue so it showed up over 700 'errors'. Mixed in there liberally were real mistakes. When I was about 80% done, I got distracted and corrected things that should have been ignored, and ignored things that have been corrected. I had to START OVER!!!