David, you've just flagged what has been one of my lower grade PMail annoyances since sometime around the time of the Fall of Rome in the West (or at least for long enough, since my use of Pegasus Mail goes back to about 1991.)
Although various other Pegasus Mail saved entry files can be edited with a text editor, no, there's no way directly to edit the binary user dictionary, and the message editor - dictionary interconnection channel -- or whatever it'd be properly called, I'm no programmer -- coughs and spits at English language possessives, whether singular or plural.
In a way it's a rope-a-dope operation: the dictionary appears to save the possessive, and then sometimes -- but not always -- will pass it on the next pass of the same message if that message has not been closed first. Sometimes the dictionary will pass a possessive, sua sponte, but sometimes not.
More consistency of dysfunctionality would be appreciated.
As I recall, some time ago the long-time message editor was upgraded to something else, but the dictionary problems followed along. But at least this current user dictionary doesn't crash and wipe itself out when it reaches ~ 80KB in size, as did its predecessor.
As far as I know, once a misspelled or junkola entry gets saved to the dictionary we're stuck with it until the end of the age. With the former dictionary I used to hack around with a hex editor to zero out the undesired binary entry, thus forcing the dictionary to flag the word in question again. But I no longer bother.
In fairness, as a business proposition David H. can only bundle with his program what message editor and associated dictionary is affordable under its licensing scheme. I also seem to recall that a few years ago he was able to have the editor updated, after some funds became available so that he could go out to the programmers to tweak something or other.
And also in fairness, there are other non-expensive software application programs which have precisely these same "issues" as well. If one moves up into the world of corporate word processing and so on, the possessives and dictionary editing functions are there, but still not here.
I don't know about Thunderbird, since I'm not a user.
Or, wait a while and the world will change around us, as spelling and punctuation will matter less and less, until they matter not at all. At least that's the way things are trending here in the States, although I don't know about in the U.K.
- Christopher Muñoz
<font size="3">David, you've just flagged what has been one of my lower grade PMail annoyances since sometime around the time of the Fall of Rome in the West (or at least for long enough, since my use of Pegasus Mail goes back to about 1991.)&nbsp;&nbsp;
Although various other Pegasus Mail saved entry files can be edited with a text editor, no, there's no way directly to edit the binary user dictionary, and the message editor - dictionary interconnection channel -- or whatever it'd be properly called, I'm no programmer -- coughs and spits at English language possessives, whether singular or plural.&nbsp;
In a way it's a rope-a-dope operation:&nbsp; the dictionary appears to save the possessive, and then sometimes -- but not always -- will pass it on the next pass of the same message if that message has not been closed first.&nbsp; Sometimes the dictionary will pass a possessive, sua sponte, but sometimes not.&nbsp;
More consistency of dysfunctionality would be appreciated.&nbsp;
As I recall, some time ago the long-time message editor was upgraded to something else, but the dictionary problems followed along.&nbsp; But at least this current user dictionary doesn't crash and wipe itself out when it reaches ~ 80KB in size, as did its predecessor.&nbsp;
As far as I know, once a misspelled or junkola entry gets saved to the dictionary we're stuck with it until the end of the age.&nbsp; With the former dictionary I used to hack around with a hex editor to zero out the undesired binary entry, thus forcing the dictionary to flag the word in question again.&nbsp; But I no longer bother.&nbsp;
In fairness, as a business proposition David H. can only bundle with his program what message editor and associated dictionary is affordable under its licensing scheme.&nbsp; I also seem to recall that a few years ago he was able to have the editor updated, after some funds became available so that he could go out to the programmers to tweak something or other.&nbsp;&nbsp;
And also in fairness, there are other non-expensive software application programs which have precisely these same "issues" as well.&nbsp; If one moves up into the world of corporate word processing and so on, the possessives and dictionary editing functions are there, but still not here.&nbsp;
I don't know about Thunderbird, since I'm not a user.&nbsp;
Or, wait a while and the world will change around us, as spelling and punctuation will matter less and less, until they matter not at all.&nbsp; At least that's the way things are trending here in the States, although I don't know about in the U.K.&nbsp;
- Christopher Muñoz
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