Spell Checkers

Back in the day, I used a word processor long before real-time spell-checking. Manual spell-checking could be done in 1983. Real-time spell-checking happened in 1995. Unhappily, in the 2000's, auto-correct spell-checkers began to wrest control from the writer. Anyway, in the 1980's, a computer magazine ran a competition in which one should suggest best ideas for the future of computers. I didn't win the prize, but here is what I suggested:

1. Real-time spell checking, and
2. Real-time fuzzy searches

OBSERVATION: Real-time fuzzy searches are not here yet in word processors, which was my suggestion, although Google will do them, as an example. Microsoft Word and LibreOffice Writer will do wildcards manually.

POSTSCRIPT: In the early 1990's, I programmed a fuzzy search into an app called Christian Names. I don't know whether one would still find this anywhere. One could do, say, a fuzzy search for "Hannah", and it would come up with all sorts of things not too far removed.