Evan Gross, the developer, points out in the comments that this isn’t really a Spell Catcher X annoyance, it’s a Mail annoyance. Quite so. Sloppy writing on my part. I’ve swapped the headline around and put the real culprit in front.

While I love the features that Spell Catcher X offers and the way it helps me work more efficently, one thing about the way it interacts with Apple Mail is annoying.

Due to a WebKit bug, a glossary completion (stored text snippets that you can insert with a user-defined abbreviation) in a Mail.app message does not replace the abbreviation with the expanded text, but is appended to it.

So typing hw and hitting the space key does not produce http://www.hawkwings.net as hoped, but the rather mangled hwhttp://www.hawkwings.net.

This only happens in Mail 2.0 and Pages. In every other app Spell Catcher X works great.

Luckily, there is a fix.

Open up Spell Catcher X’s Preferences. Select Mail.app from the drawer on the right to create a custom setting. Then uncheck the “Make Replacements Directly” checkbox. Close. Done.

[Via Pierre Igot's Betalogue]

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Tags: Apple Mail, mail.app

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