[quote user="David_himself"]It's not a huge big deal, and I still love PMail to bits, but it's an annoyance, and I shouldn't have to sacrifice the whole auto-replacement feature to prevent it. Sez me, anyway.[/quote]

I always turn off any of these features wherever they occur (including auto-suggestions as done by browsers and mobile phones (which I don't use either if I don't have to)) since they always drive me crazy as well instead of being helpful: I probably simply hate smart-ass devices ;-)

Spellcheckers have their uses and their limitations. The PMail spellchecker cuts in too soon for me when editing a part-written message. You have, say, a sentence which reads

I think the best solution ...

and you decide you want to insert a few words to make

I think for Fred's sake the best solution ...

You put the cursor at the necessary insertion point and start typing the extra words, only for the spellchecker to take the entirely temporary sequence forthe (after you've typed one word) and change it to for the. I'm no touch-typist, so by the time I look up again at the screen, the sentence has been turned into garbage:

I think for the Fred's sake best solution ...

That's if I'm lucky enough to spot what the idiot spellchecker has done before I send the message. This happens to me a lot, drives me nuts, and I've only just realised why. For comparison, although MS Word's spellchecker will also change forthe to for the, if you edit text as I did above, it does not mess it up. (And I'm no admirer of MS Word.)

David

[quote user="David_himself"]That's if I'm lucky enough to spot what the idiot spellchecker has done before I send the message. This happens to me a lot, drives me nuts, and I've only just realised why. For comparison, although MS Word's spellchecker will also change forthe to for the, if you edit text as I did above, it does not mess it up. (And I'm no admirer of MS Word.)[/quote]

This is not the spellchecker, it's auto-replacement: Just turn it off under Tools => Options => Automatic formatting ... (I never had it enabled since I always re-read what I type). The spellchecker doesn't provide a correct as you type feature.

Just a suggestion, have you tried entering some text in Firefox or Chrome, that use Hunspell too, did you see the same problem?

Martin 

OK, Michael, I thought I might get my wrist slapped for misdescribing the problem – or even for being the problem myself. ;-)

I long ago removed items like themself from the auto-replacement lists in PMail and MS Word that I don't want replaced, but I find auto-replacement quite useful for fast writing. (I don't need a spell-checker, and grammar checkers do more harm than good.) Both PMail and MS Word can auto-replace a common typo. But if I'm revising my own text and I haven't mistyped in any way, PMail sometimes mistakenly "corrects" me and turns sense into nonsense, while MS Word leaves well alone. It's not a huge big deal, and I still love PMail to bits, but it's an annoyance, and I shouldn't have to sacrifice the whole auto-replacement feature to prevent it. Sez me, anyway.

David