#1746 option to turn off autocorrect on notes?

[Dsikes]

I'm a scientist and love Skim. I often add 'new text notes' to PDFs and find I constantly need to fight with the auto-correct system that changes my spelling to whatever it thinks I meant (which is always wrong) so must correct the autocorrect all the time. Can this be made an optional feature in the settings so I can turn it off? Thanks!

[Christiaan Hofman]

You can already do that through the settings in the Spelling and Grammar menu (either in the Edit menu or the contextual menu). This should be remembered for the context in which you set it.

[Dsikes]

Can you re-open this? I remain unable to solve this vexing problem?

[Christiaan Hofman]

Sorry, what I said is true for spell checking, not correction. For auto-correct this is a system preference (in the Text section of the Keyboard preferences). So you can set it there. I don't think we should make it a default in Skim separately, because it would reject the system wide setting. If we would, we would get valid bug reports that Skim does not follow the setting the user makes in the system preferences.

[Christiaan Hofman]

BTW you could do this through a hidden preference at an app basis. Type the following in Terminal.app:

defaults write -app Skim NSAutomaticSpellingCorrectionEnabled -bool false

[Dsikes]

Awesome, thanks! This worked!