Open toddprouty opened 13 years ago
ghost
commented
13 years ago The whole Edit - Substitutions menu is missing. If it was added, I don't think those settings would need to be duplicated in preferences though. The menu items could toggle the global defaults, like Edit - Spelling - Check Spelling While Typing does now.
toddprouty
commented
13 years ago True. For some reason many (if not most) apps still don't support the substitutions feature. This article has a tip that enables it in some apps that are capable of it but don't have it enabled by default: http://macw.us/qc5FtA. Unfortunately this doesn't work for NV, but if I'm not mistaken it did make Edit > Use Automatic Text Replacement available, which allows for replacements like changing (c) into ©. Or is that already available by default?
mitranim
commented
10 years ago Came here to request this feature too. Good to see other people share the annoyance. Sad to see it's been two years and no progress. =(
kimslawson
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9 years ago Agreed on the need for this. In another issue closed mid-2011, the missing “Edit > Substitutions” menu was mentioned, with an assertion by @scrod that the toggle “Use Automatic Text Replacement” enables the default substitution behaviors. I am not sure this is true anymore, as I've tested it on my system running OS X 10.10.3 and Notational Velocity version 2.0 β5 (8) and it's not working. Can anyone confirm this?
Smart quotes or typographer’s quotes significantly improve the appearance of text, and it would be very useful to have this option. The only time smart quotes should be avoided is when writing code, but NV isn’t primarily a text editor for programmers. BBEdit and TextWrangler are good examples of how this can be done. One potential issue: this would likely need to be a global preference in NV, unlike the apps mentioned which can toggle the preference for individual documents.