10.6: Globally enable text substitutions and spell check

Oct 01, '09 07:30:05AM

Contributed by: GaelicWizard

As we've all found, you have to turn on Text Substitutions in every app that you want to use them in. This is reminiscent of needing to do the same when Spell Checking was introduced in Cocoa. Well, to enable both by default, just paste these three lines in Terminal:

defaults write -g WebAutomaticTextReplacementEnabled -bool true
defaults write -g WebAutomaticDashSubstitutionEnabled -bool true
defaults write -g WebContinuousSpellCheckingEnabled -bool true
The first line will enable most of Text Substitutions. The second line will enable more of Text Substitutions, specifically changing '--' to '—' (em-dash). The third line will enable spell check.

Please note that these commands just set the defaults. If you have turned one of these features off in some app, then it will stay off.

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