[MlMt] Emergency: can't disable the elipses character :|

[Bill Cole]

On 17 Jun 2015, at 10:25, Mark Wadham wrote:

> If I type three dots I get an elipses character: …
>
> This is abhorrant and crazy-making, how can I make it stop?
>
> It’s not happening in any other applications.
>
> Sysprefs -> Text -> Correct spelling automatically is off
> Sysprefs -> Text -> Use smart quotes and dashes is off
> Spelling is set to “British English”
>
> If I add an autocorrect item mapping three dots back to three dots it 
> still happens.
>
> I can’t see any options in MailMate prefs that seem related to this.
>
> Please help before I go crazy and trash the office?

Two clues:

1. As a member of the Church of 7-Bit ASCII (a.k.a. the "Email As GOD 
INTENDED" faithful...) I somehow managed to kill off all text 
replacement with non-textual abominations entirely everywhere in 
MailMate years ago. Unfortunately, I can no longer recall HOW I did 
this, because I am of an age that is only slightly below that of the 
Holy Church's median, but have hope: there is SOME way to make it the 
default.

2. In trying to *force* MM to do the 3-dot -> ellipsis replacement, I 
found that it is part of the "Smart Dashes" feature which apparently is 
controlled on a per-editing-window basis (!) by the "Substitutions" 
submenu of the Edit menu or context menu (ctrl-click or right-click). So 
a workaround for your problem would be to turn it off in every new 
message.