Dear list fellows, I am a bit puzzled by aspell's behaviour regarding my personal dictionary. I am using aspell through Emacs' user interface, which passes it either "-d british", or "-d american", according to its own documentation. While in itself, this does make the expected difference (if I choose "british", spellings like "rationalise" will be OK; if I choose "american", they will not), it seems to maintain only one common English user dictionary (i.e. for both AE and BE). The latter is called .aspell.en.pws and is updated with new words regardless of whether I have chosen "british" or "american".
When I choose "deutsch" (German), a different personal dictionary is modified (called .aspell.de.pws). I tried to convince aspell to be more distinguishing by making two copies of .aspell.en.pws and naming them .aspell.en_GB.pws and .aspell.en_US.pws, respectively (and making .aspell.en.pws invisible by renaming it). That didn't help; it simply created a new .aspell.en.pws. Finally, it seems it does not have to do with the Emacs interface: I also tried aspell check -d en_US file.txt aspell check -d en_GB file.txt from the command line, which behaved as expected, but the behaviour regarding the personal dictionary was still the same. It even created an empty .aspell.en.pws when I did not insert any new words. Can anyone point me out whether (and where) I can change this? Many thanks for any help. Regards, Florian _______________________________________________ Aspell-user mailing list Aspell-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-user