From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Let ispell use use multiple dictionaries stored in different files.
Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2021 15:41:50 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <834kc1ifzl.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGP6POKF6QcZpaLgyfCx=_vvpKD3fYoi3CHvgL8619LiRnKuvA@mail.gmail.com> (message from Hongyi Zhao on Sat, 7 Aug 2021 20:20:02 +0800)
> From: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2021 20:20:02 +0800
>
> On Ubuntu 20.04, I noticed that ispell use the following file as its
> completion dictionary: "/usr/share/dict/words", which comes from
> wamerican package:
>
> $ apt-file search /usr/share/dict/words
> wamerican: /usr/share/dict/words
>
> But I want to know if ispell can use multiple dictionaries stored in
> different files for this purpose.
ispell-alternate-dictionary is a defcustom, so you can customized the
value to point to any other file. But it must to be a single file.
Why do you need to use more than one file at once? This file is not
really used as a dictionary, it is used to complete words you type as
replacements, or when you are looking for a word you cannot remember.
It isn't a dictionary used by the speller for finding spelling
mistakes.
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2021-08-07 12:20 Let ispell use use multiple dictionaries stored in different files Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-07 12:41 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-08-07 13:46 ` Hongyi Zhao
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