[Geany-Users] spell check; personal dictionary words

Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger at xxxxx
Sat Sep 4 12:05:41 UTC 2021


Hi,

good idea. I finally got to do it:
https://github.com/geany/geany-plugins/pull/1108

Regards,
Enrico


On 24.07.21 09:37, r.rudolph at mnet-online.de wrote:
> hello Mr. Troeger,
> 
> that's so cool!!
> 
> It would be good to add some kind of text below in
> https://plugins.geany.org/spellcheck.html, so other users are informed
> there:
> 
> Personal dictionary words
> /home/<username>/.config/enchant/
> Previously added dictionary words can be found in those files. Words can
> be added there, changed and deleted directly in any editor.
> 
> 
> With kind regards
> Ralf
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Am 2021-07-23 23:46, schrieb Enrico Tröger:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On 23.07.21 22:37, r.rudolph at mnet-online.de wrote:
>>> 1) How can I delete some words that I added to the dictionary in Geany?
>>
>> see 2) below.
>>
>>> 2) Is there a possibility to see the list of words that I added to the
>>> dictionary in Geany?
>> On my system, there are ".dic" files for each used language in
>> /home/<username>/.config/enchant/.
>> In those files you can find the previously added dictionary words. And
>> when using Geany (or any other editor) to edit those files, you can
>> delete the words there directly.
>>
>> Additionally, I have files like /home/enrico/.aspell.<languae>.pws which
>> also has some of the previously added words.
>>
>>
>> I'm not sure how portable these locations are and if maybe other
>> spelling engines (like ispell, myspell, hunspell, voikko, ...) use
>> similar locations.
>>
>> A few more details are explained in https://github.com/AbiWord/enchant,
>> section "Sharing personal word lists between spell-checkers".
>>
>> I'm not aware of any editor or other tool to manage personal
>> dictionaries / wordlists.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Enrico
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