>>>>>>>http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070709/od_nm/germany_feet_dc
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>>>>>>I once had a flatmate who had the smelliest feet ever. Although he washed them daily, and regularly scrubbed his socks, you could smell them THROUGH HIS BOOTS, sitting opposite him on the bus. He once slepped in my bed (when I wasn't there, I might add) and after I couldn't bear the smell left in the sheets in a rough circle where his feet had been.
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>>>>>I try to stay away from spelling comments, but every so often... slepped? That's just to damn good to pass up.
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>>>>Oh, yes. I missed out the "ch" didn't I (he often went for long walks in my bed :-)
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>>>>Jeez, what came over me? I'll have to go and birch myself severely now - to be caught out with a spelling mistake (aot typo) by someone from that side of the Atlantic ....
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>>>>BTW, talking of typos, for some reason that's developed over the last 6 months or so, about 90% of my attempts to type "the" end up as "teh" and I have to go back and corect it. Am I becomming typographically dixxleckkick in my old age?
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>>>On my computer, I have added a lot of my usual typos into my intellisense table. Brwose is replaced by browse, csae is replaced by case, and so on. One thing I would like to add, but never had the chance to figure out how, is to replace for with where when the first word is select. And opposite, I would like to replace where with for when the first word was browse or replace. BTW, when will Michel add intellisenst to UT? :-)
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>>So I'm not the only one whse fingers race ahead of the brain!
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>>Why not have, say, "br" for browse, save mistyping the whole? I have "dc" for "do case", "ct" for "clos tabl all", "wtf" for "with thisform", "ew" - "end with", und so weiser.
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>You would (or do) expand "ct" to "clos tabl all" and no further? That's just WRONG <g>.

Oh I TOTALLY agree with you. I was just abbreving for brevity in typing. The sort-of-colleague, whose old s/w I have to maintain, does my head in with his "repla" for Godssakes, and that's using VFP7 too.

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>I worked on a couple of projects with Whil Hentzen and he had one habit that drove me nuts. He religiously abbreviated all FoxPro commands and keywords to 4 letters, even ones (like "clos tabl all") that could be spelled out with minimal extra keystrokes. Why introduce even a slight element of ambiguity into a language designed to be English-like?

I think even without customizing intellisense these get expanded to the full text, even if you WANT to use the abbrev, nicht wahr?