ENCHANT-2(1) General Commands Manual ENCHANT-2(1)
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
-p WORDLIST
use the given personal wordlist
-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>. The language tag is an IETF BCP 47 language tag,
typically of the form COUNTRY_LANGUAGE. To see what dictionaries 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\Ap-
plication Data\enchant
/usr/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, /usr/share/enchant/hunspell and ~/.config/en-
chant/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.
SEE ALSO
aspell(1), enchant-lsmod-2(1)
AUTHOR
Written by Dom Lachowicz and Reuben Thomas.
ENCHANT-2(1)
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