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
british-english-large
british-english-large(5) Users' Manual british-english-large(5)
NAME
british-english-large - a list of English words
DESCRIPTION
/usr/share/dict/british-english-large is an ASCII file which contains an alphabetic list of words, one per line.
FILES
There may be any number of word lists in /usr/share/dict/. /etc/dictionaries-common/words is a symbolic link to the currently-chosen
/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, and/or to change the currently-
chosen word list.
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
Word lists are collected and maintained by various authors. The Debian English word lists are built from the SCOWL (Spell- Checker Ori-
ented Word Lists) package, whose upstream editor is Kevin Atkinson <kevina@users.sourceforge.net>.
Debian 16 June 2003 british-english-large(5)