Re: Let ispell use use multiple dictionaries stored in different files.

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

On Sun, Aug 8, 2021 at 3:43 PM Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Aug 8, 2021 at 3:23 PM Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU
> Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hongyi Zhao wrote:
> >
> > >> You can always sort a consecutive subset compare the result
> > >> from the original file to see if it sorts the same way.
> > >> I'm unsure it has to be sorted exactly the same way, I mean
> > >> why? And how would that work? Just sort it :)
> > >
> > > I'm unsure too. Based on my tries, it seems that the results
> > > obtained by default sort options works well in Emacs will
> > > a decent response time.
> >
> > Then just start collecting every word list you can find.
> >
> > -insane isn't that insane. We can call the next one something
> >  more positive, perhaps. wamerican-healthy?
>
> Good, see the following more comprehensive way:
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> 1. Generate the latest version of the insane word list using its
> official tool [1].
> 2. git clone https://github.com/dwyl/english-words.git dwyl/english-words.git
> 3. Generate the Webster_s_Unabridged_3.txt as I've said before.
> 4. Combine all the above:
>
> $ sort -u ilius/Webster_s_Unabridged_3.txt
> dwyl/english-words.git/words.txt en-wl/SCOWL-wl/words.txt -o
> english-words-healthy

Now, the total entries are as follows:

$ wc -l english-words-healthy
841181 english-words-healthy

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