Re: Create a complete/huge dictionary for aspell.

[Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 9:29 AM Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 9:07 AM Emanuel Berg via Users list for the
> GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hongyi Zhao wrote:
> >
> > >>> I found that too many words are not included in the
> > >>> pre-established aspell-en dictionary, say this one:
> > >>> destigmatize
> > >>
> > >> $ sudo apt-get --install-suggests install iamerican-insane
> > >
> > > I installed the above dictionary, but still can't see the
> > > completion hints for the word "destigmatize" in the
> > > candidate list. See the attachment for more details.
> >
> > Yeah, but when it comes, and is correct after you carefully
> > examine and double-check the word, hit I so it will be in your
> > local list forever after. That's how it works, you'll still
> > have to do that for a lot of words in the beginning. But add,
> > add and add and soon enough that will almost never happen.
>
> I've posted a similar issue [1]. Here I give my some further tries and
> testings as described below.
>
> I've created a [personal
> dictionary](http://aspell.net/man-html/Format-of-the-Personal-and-Replacement-Dictionaries.html)
> which has the following contents:
>
> ```
> $ cat ~/.aspell.en.pws
> personal_ws-1.1 en 2
> Telegram
> destigmatize
> ```
> This time, the expected word really appread in the correct ispell's
> popup dropdown menu, as shown in the attachment.

Additional comment: The screenshot was prepared by the following
command, which allows some delay so that I've enough time to show the
popup dropdown menu:

$ scrot -c -d 5 -s -b

Hongyi