Re: How to add words to system spell-checking dictionary

[Ed Greshko]

On 03/09/17 14:31, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Now, what one "could" do is, taking the Thunderbird example, link
> ~/.thunderbird/profilename/persdict.dat with ~/.hunspell_en_US.  But
> that too presents a problem.  While Tbird will read from the file it
> won't be able to write to the file to add new words as the selinux
> context won't allow for it as is.
>
> Applications don't seem to reference ~/.hunspell_LANG

Sorry....  Hit send too soon....

What one could consider is adding to /usr/share/myspell/en_US.dic for
example.  But, of course, any updates to the hunspell-en packages would
eliminate those changes.