On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 01:17:17PM -0700, Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas wrote:
(By the way, the reason I used -f rather than —fix is that I can’t figure out how to get the iPhone Mail.app to not replace double hyphens with an em-dash, or even how to fix it when it does. All of the other fancifier stuff can be worked around pretty easily, but apparently not that one…)
I don't know anything about Mail.app, but in LibreOffice you can Ctrl-Z to underdo autocorrect without undoing the characters you typed. In my experience, autocorrect often is activated when you type a space or newline, and only looks back a single word at a time. So with a bit of extra work, you might be able to avoid triggering the autocorrect on the hyphens. Perhaps something like this? type: space hyphen space hyphen space f i x space backspace to delete the spaces forward arrow past the "fix" before typing another space I have found that variations of this seems to work with autocorrect on some systems. (Or just wait until you're back on a computer with a less annoying mail client before replying :-) -- Steven