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ENCHANT-2(1) General Commands Manual ENCHANT-2(1)

NAME

Enchant - a spellchecker

SYNOPSIS

enchant-2 [-a] [-d dict] [-h] [-l] [-L] [-v]

DESCRIPTION

Enchant is an ispell-compatible spellchecker.

OPTIONS

List suggestions in ispell pipe mode format.
Use the given dictionary.
Show short help.
List only the misspellings.
Include the line number in the output.
Prints the program's version.

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
en:aspell,hunspell
en_GB:hunspell,aspell
fr:hunspell,aspell

FILES AND DIRECTORIES

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

(If the environment variable is set.)
Default: ~/.config/enchant
Default: C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application 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/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.

SEE ALSO

aspell(1), enchant-lsmod-2(1)

AUTHOR

Written by Dom Lachowicz and Reuben Thomas.