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[ahknice]

Can somebody please write a code that will autocorrect mispelled words checking from a list of correct words.

Say when you type "voer" it will change to "over", "yhou" to "you" and "hte" to "the".

And you don't have to do it like ::voer::over and ::yhou::you or ::hte::the.

But will just detect words not in the list (separate file) and intelligently match it to closest correct word.

I see this feature in some of the more common auto correct software in the market but need one that's free and possibly born out of the fabulous AHK.

Please can somebody write a code as I'm level 0 in scripting.

[evan]

so basically are u referring to the spell check system like microsoft word or firefox? or are u talking about when u type words wrong, it will instantly replace with the correct one like hotstring?

and second question, where do u usually type that the program doesnt have spellcheck function build-in?

[ahknice]

I'm typing in a form, like here where we post topics, web form I guess you can call it that. The spell check is from Firefox, "check my spelling as I type".

I've made use of ahk auto complete where I can have ::btw::by the way.

What I'm looking for now is to "auto correct" misspelled words 'cause I suck at typing big time.

The program I have in use now is the one I downloaded here, the ahk auto complete, one with entries from wikipedia, foreign words with accents, changing of ign to ing, the Win+H to enter misspelling correction etc.

Basically I'm looking for auto correct not auto complete.

[evan]

given the examples u provide:
voer, yhou and hte
how do u determine "the closest" spelling
for example:
voer can be voar (misspell a to e), can be over (misspell ov to vo)
yhou can be you (misspell one extra h), can be thou (misspell t to u)
hte can be the (misspell th to ht), can be ate (misspell a to h)
here are just few examples, i am sure if one checks carefully, there might be a lot of combination for each word
(thats the reason why firefox or microsoft word provide suggestion words instead of auto correct. and for the auto correct function in microsoft, u actually input the list each by each just like ::yhou::you)

here is what i meant in microsoft word:

[evan]

this will be a quick way how u can add words immediately:

[jmanx]

this should work in real-time but, you have to add all the incorrect spelling's yourself.

[flyingDman]

[tidbit]

Look all throughout this topic: http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8057&highlight=auto+correct .
there are several libraries in that topic, mix/match/edit them for your likings. plus you can easly add/remove them on the fly with win+H.
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what's this :*?:

[ahknice]

evan, nice way to add, can you please edit it so I don't have to "tab" to go to OK or click the OK button to send. Can I just, after filling the second field, can enter/send from there.

jmanx, I understand :*?: means it will replace without first pressing on space. It's actually nice. I can use this.

flyingDman and tidbit, I'm sorry I don't have my facts straight. Actually I downloaded the autocorrect.ahk not "auto complete", which I mentioned earlier with entries from wikipedia, foreign words with accent, changing of win +H feature and some correction entries e.g. ::memeber::member. Correction worked great but need to add in more.

[ahknice]

evan can you please edit the code that will, I have a work flow in mind but don't know how to edit or where to insert from your code. Basically, the work flow goes like this:


0a. "first I will highlight an entry from a list and copy it" (then comes your script)

CODE:
1. paste in field 1 and field 2.
2. click on OK button.



I find this will be easier to manage after I'm gonna run this with VBA macro to arrange them as opposed to individually filling each field, as shown below

[evan]

if u have a list like:
wrong=correct
then u can just use the following fuction to add the list in corrected format "::wrong::correct" at the end of the script:

[ahknice]

It's lovely. Now I don't have to individually highlight, copy, run script. Just run new script and walah I got myself a list.

Although when I paste it to notepad it looked like this,

::ablre::able::alos::also::ansd::and::nad::and::appointmetn::appointment

I pasted it to Word,

::ablre::able
::alos::also
::ansd::and
::nad::and
::appointmetn::appointment
::aroudn::around
::arpund::around
::arrvied::arrived

But it's fine. I can always go to Word to have it arranged like so. And this is way, way better. Thanks evan dear .

[ahknice]

Well actually I'm still hoping that someone could sort of like crack the code or write a code that will auto correct much like a program I have, which is a trial. I really hope ahk can do this.

What the software does is it corrects (1) interactively and (2) automatically.

This one below auto corrects interactively, (asking you to choose from a list of suggestions):



This one below auto corrects automatically. It chooses the FIRST suggestion, if you notice:



My wish is to have the code auto correct automatically, intelligently match typo word to closest correct word. I hope somebody can write the code please.

[jmanx]

here's a small script I wrote for an auto correct list on wikipedia that has more than 4k+ corrections