On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 21:28 -0600, Kevin Atkinson wrote: > On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Swarup wrote: > > > On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 20:39 -0600, Kevin Atkinson wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Swarup wrote: > >> > >>> On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 10:22 -0600, Kevin Atkinson wrote: > >>>> On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Swarup wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> In my home directory there is a hidden file by the name .aspell.hi.pws, > >>>>> which is the "personal" aspell Hindi dictionary i.e if I add words to > >>>>> the Hindi dictionary, they get added to this file. In the same way if I > >>>>> add a word to the English dictionary, where is the file to which the > >>>>> word gets added? I don't see a similarly named file for English in my > >>>>> home directory. Sometimes I may add a word in error, and later need to > >>>>> remove it. For that reason I am asking. > >>>> > >>>> It should be ".aspell.en.pws". It may not exist because you have not > >>>> added any English words to your personal dictionary. > >>> > >>> I have added many words. Not only that, but I have added some which I > >>> wish to remove. That is the reason I was searching for this file. > >> > >> Then try this do: > >> aspell --lang=en dump config > >> > >> Than at the value of the following settings: > >> home-dir > >> personal > >> > >> It should tell the the exact value when configured for the English > >> language. If that doesn't help than I really don't know where Aspell is > >> storing them. It could be that it is really Hunspell that is being used, > >> in which case I can not help you. > > > > Is this what you are referring to-- > > > > # home-dir (string) > > # location for personal files > > # default: <$HOME|./> = /home/swarup > > Yes and one that should look like this: > > # personal (string) > # personal dictionary file name > # default: .aspell.<lang>.pws = .aspell.en.pws > > The "default:" line tells you what the effective value is.
Can you tell me how to change the setting, so that it will look as you say it should look. I very much want to be able to edit that personal English dictionary. I am somewhat confused at this point as to where all those words I added, have been saved. > > > I am not using Hunspell, to the best of my knowledge. I am working in > > gedit, and the spellchecker I am using is aspell. I edit the aspell > > Hindi dictionary all the time, adding to it, changing words, removing > > words. And in the gedit tools menu I can select English or Hindi as the > > spellchecker. If the Hindi spellchecker in that very menu is aspell, > > then I would imagine the English spellchecker is also aspell. > > Never versions of gedit may use Enchant, which can use different spell > checkers for different languages. It could be that Aspell was chosen for > Hindi, but Hunspell for English. I do not have a newer version of gedit. I am running Ubuntu 9.04, and the gedit version is "gedit 2.26.1" > You can also make sure Aspell is being used by creating a document with > some words you know are in the personal dictionary and then checking it > using "aspell check". I can do so, but I think you'll see by the gedit version that it is not new, and I believe predates the inclusion of Enchant. _______________________________________________ Aspell-user mailing list Aspell-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-user