Another cool thing your Mac can do
Tue, 26 September 2006
If you are typing something in any cocoa application and you are not sure how to spell the word, Mac OS X has a nice feature giving you some suggestions.
For example you are trying to write that ridicul.. redicuou… ridicuol … errr … ridiculously complicated word, and for a million dollars you wouldn’t be able to get it right just now. All you need to do is to type part of the word and hit escape on your keyboard (or F5, thanks Jeff). The list of suggestions drops down and you just pick the right one, that simple.
I have tried it in Mail.app, iChat, TextEdit, RapidWeaver, iWeb, Mac Journal and few other applications, and it works fine.
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jeff said: Tue, 26 September 2006 at 20:33
On my PowerBook, I have to hit F5 to see the drop-down choices. I don’t think I changed the default configuration on my machine. (Hitting escape takes me out of the drop-down if I don’t want to select something on the list.)
Janice said: Tue, 26 September 2006 at 22:07
i tried on safari’s and found that you will erase with ESC, but otherwise the ESC works fine in other programs like mail.app.
Markus said: Wed, 27 September 2006 at 07:25
Hmm, doesn’t work on my PB with either key…
R031E5 said: Fri, 29 September 2006 at 12:35
Yeap, it should work in any Cocoa made application, hitting the ESC key works for me, but F5 is reserved for the sound :p
Cliff said: Mon, 9 October 2006 at 13:37
Those with notebook keyboards have to press [FN] [F5] unless they configured otherwise. [Esc] won’t work on those form items such as search boxes. Pressing [esc] there will delete the line. Press [F5] or [FN F5] to work around it. Love this.
paul said: Mon, 18 December 2006 at 00:03
option-escape does it for me as well as F5 in 10.3.9; cool.