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NAME

Enchant - a spellchecker

SYNOPSIS

enchant-2 -a|-l|-h|-v [-L] [-d DICTIONARY] [FILE]

DESCRIPTION

Enchant is an ispell-compatible spellchecker.

-d DICTIONARY: use the given dictionary
-a: list suggestions in ispell pipe mode format
-l: list only the misspellings
-L: display line numbers
-h: display help and exit
-v: display version information and exit

ENCHANT ORDERING FILE

Enchant uses global and per-user ordering files named enchant.ordering to decide which spelling provider to use for particular languages. The per-user file takes precedence.

The ordering file takes the form language_tag:<comma-separated list of spelling providers>. To see what providers are available, run enchant-lsmod-2. '*' is used to mean "use this ordering for all languages, unless instructed otherwise." For example:

*:aspell,hunspell,nuspell
en:aspell,hunspell,nuspell
en_GB:hunspell,nuspell,aspell
fr:hunspell,nuspell,aspell

FILES AND DIRECTORIES

Enchant looks in the following places for files, in decreasing order of precedence:

ENCHANT_CONFIG_DIR: (If the environment variable is set.)
XDG_CONFIG_HOME/enchant (non-Windows systems): Default: ~/.config/enchant
CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA\enchant (Windows systems): Default: C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\enchant
${prefix}/share/enchant: (Or the equivalent location relative to the enchant library for a relocatable build.)

Dictionaries are looked for in a subdirectory with the same name as the provider; for example, ${prefix}/share/enchant/hunspell and ~/.config/enchant/hunspell.

Some providers may also look in a standard system directory for their dictionaries; the hunspell provider can be configured to do so at build time.

AUTHOR

Written by Dom Lachowicz and Reuben Thomas.

This document was created by man2html, using the manual pages.
Time: 08:55:13 GMT, December 16, 2021