Make aspell work right??

[Suvayu Ali]

On Monday 26 April 2010 01:00 PM, Beartooth wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:50:13 -0700, Suvayu Ali wrote:
>
>> On Monday 26 April 2010 09:25 AM, Beartooth wrote:
>
>>> rpm -qa aspell*
>>> aspell-0.60.6-7.fc12.i686
>>> aspell-en-6.0-11.fc12.i686
>>>
>>> 	So the second one must be a dictionary? Is there a better?
>>
>> Since you already have the dictionary installed, I would guess its a
>> setup problem somewhere. I use aspell from emacs (flyspell-mode) and it
>> works fine. In my home I have these 2 files,
>>
>> $ ls .aspell*
>> .aspell.en.prepl  .aspell.en.pws
>
> 	In /home/btth, that command finds "no such file." So I told the
> search function to search the whole filesystem; it found nothing, either.
>
> 	After a lot of fiddling, I told it to search the whole
> filesystem, including hidden and backup, for anything with a name
> containing "spell"; it found hundreds and hundreds -- but the only two
> executables, for aspell and hunspell, are both in /usr/bin. There are
> also four shell scripts there, and one in /etc/mc
>
> 	All this is Geek to me.

You could try putting those files in your home area and then try using 
aspell. So something like this should be work,

$ echo "personal_repl-1.1 en 0" > ~/.aspell.en.prepl
$ echo "personal_ws-1.1 en 62" > ~/.aspell.en.pws

Then try using aspell from any of your editors (emacs, vim, nano...) or 
try using it directly like so,

$ aspell check <file>

Hope this will help. :)

-- 
Suvayu

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