Re: [Aspell-user] Where is the personal dictionary for English language?

[Swarup]

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.