From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Let ispell use use multiple dictionaries stored in different files. Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2021 15:41:50 +0300 Message-ID: <834kc1ifzl.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14578"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 07 14:42:16 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mCLeZ-0003eH-DC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 07 Aug 2021 14:42:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42184 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mCLeX-0004SI-0F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 07 Aug 2021 08:42:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51396) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mCLe8-0004Ru-UZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Aug 2021 08:41:48 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:53612) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mCLe8-00021F-OQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Aug 2021 08:41:48 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:3887 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mCLe8-0005He-B4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Aug 2021 08:41:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Hongyi Zhao on Sat, 7 Aug 2021 20:20:02 +0800) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:132383 Archived-At: > From: Hongyi Zhao > 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.