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Element 62

62◔‹
Au
Autocorrect

It replaces what you did with what it thinks you meant.

autocorrect · auto-format

The other half of the exchange is Override.

First known

Corrected

1968DWIM in BBN-LISP automatically corrects many types of errors and carries on. Warren Teitelman.

Popular first: Word 6.0 AutoCorrect (1993). The pages read show DWIM's asking mode.

The popular first is later. This one comes from a source someone opened. The source.

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Specimen № 62 — operate freely

Type the lab's genes into the sheet. Then type one again.

Fig. 62 — Autocorrect

000 readings · idle

On the guess: its twin

  1. on the guessAuAutocorrect
  2. on the errandGrGrant

The two series line up in pairs. Each act on a guess sits above the act that does the same thing to an errand, so Autocorrect and Grant are one move made on two kinds of thing.

Bodies

The act stays put while the hardware changes. These are some of the forms Autocorrect takes.

  • autocorrect
  • auto-format