Enable/disable individual autocorrections/symbols or font styles

[rugk]

Background

I guess I already mentioned it somewhere, where we’ve introduced groups, that a “left/right selection” or so woudl be useful, so let’s track that here.
Possibly it could also be used for re-ordering in the future…

The problems could be:

For symbols:

• I suffer from issues like Do not replace <-- --> and other certain characters in Markdown/HTML #14, but don't want to disable the whole category, but only remove one symbol.

For

• I want to tweak my context menu and make it smaller and would like to minimize the height of my context menu.
• I want to most used things at the top

Proposed solution

Two lists side-by-side, where you’d select one element and change the state from disabled to enabled by switching it to the other list. (I have no idea how that is called…)

Alternatives

• I would not consider this too soon, also because it is quite hard to implement.
• Maybe a better settings UI could also be an alternative… like a huge list of checkboxes, but that is ugly…
• More fine-grained groups? I doubt that's useful…

Additional context

Maybe one could also add your own symbols at least in the future, similarly to how word processing editors do it (Word or LibreOffice), they have such an autocorrection dialog.

But this are just ideas, nothing I’d immediately do. Just collecting some ideas and upvotes here.

[tdulcet]

Two lists side-by-side, where you’d select one element and change the state from disabled to enabled by switching it to the other list.

I do not think this would be that difficult to implement. Here and here are a couple of examples of what I believe you are describing (they both are using JQuery, but that should be easy to remove). Your AutomaticSettings library would then only need to store the disabled list, which would require similar changes to those needed for TinyWebEx/AutomaticSettings#15.

Maybe one could also add your own symbols at least in the future, similarly to how word processing editors do it (Word or LibreOffice), they have such an autocorrection dialog.

For reference, here are those dialogs. LibraOffice Writer:

Microsoft Word:

[amourchaleur]

Would it be possible for auto superscript or subscript for text such as 10th or 1st (in thunderbird)?

[tdulcet]

Would it be possible for auto superscript or subscript for text such as 10th or 1st (in thunderbird)?

Yes, that would certainly be possible, at least for superscript. Please feel free to create a new issue for the feature request.

[amourchaleur]

Just created the new feature request. Thanks for considering!