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Exercises

1. Find a document you have written without using a spelling checker, and spell-check it. If you never make any mistakes, you can skip this exercise! If you can't find any documents with spelling errors, create some errors and then spell-check the document.

2. Try doing a spell-check in which you ask Emacs to query-replace some text. Is there a way with which you can turn this into an unconditional replace instead of a query-replace?

3. Try doing a spell-check, in which you pause it using recursive-edit and continue afterward.

4. Write a document using on-the-fly spell-checking, and estimate how much extra time you use or spare, compared to doing the spell-check in one go afterward.

5. Define abbreviations for the words miscellaneous, abbreviation, accessibility, and the phrase Emacs is my best friend . Which of these could be made easily using dynamic abbreviations?

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