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Operating Systems Linux Debian Getting a better spell checker Post 302930458 by sreyan32 on Sunday 4th of January 2015 12:13:11 PM
Old 01-04-2015
Getting a better spell checker
Guys I am new to Linux in general and want to know what is the use of the following files-:

/usr/share/dict/words
/usr/share/dict/words.pre-dictionaries-common

Are they used by the spell checker to find potential typos ?

If so are there any better larger word lists out there ? I am sure there must be a 3rd party list that is better than the lists provided in the stock Debian distros.

If so how do I use them in place of the default word lists ?

Also how can I find out what spell checker I am using on my Debian system ?

If so how do I upgrade to GNU Aspell ? According to its site its suppose to be the best for Linux systems
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

irish

WORDS(5)						     Linux Programmers Manual							  WORDS(5)

NAME

       irish - a list of Irish words

DESCRIPTION

       /usr/share/dict/irish is an ASCII file which contains an alphabetic list of words, one per line.

FILES

       /etc/dictionaries-common/words  is  a  symbolic	link  to  a  /usr/share/dict/<language> file.  /usr/share/dict/words is a symbolic link to
       /etc/dictionaries-common/words, and is the name by which other software	should	refer  to  the	system	word  list.   See  select-default-
       wordlist(8) for more information.

       The directory /usr/share/dict can contain word lists for many languages, with name of the language in English, e.g., /usr/share/dict/french
       and /usr/share/dict/danish contain respectively lists of French and Danish words if they exist.	Such lists should be coded using  the  ISO
       8859-1 character set encoding.

SEE ALSO

       ispell(1), select-default-wordlist(8), and the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.

HISTORY

       The words lists are not specific, and may be generated from any number of sources.

       The  system word list used to be /usr/dict/words.  For compatibility, software should check that location if /usr/share/dict/words does not
       exist.

AUTHOR

       Alastair McKibstry <mckinstry@computer.org> Kevin Scannell

Linux								   29 Sept 1998 							  WORDS(5)
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