I accidentally added a word to the user dictionary in Evolution 2.28 on Ubuntu 9.10. How can I edit the user dictionary to fix this?
1 Answer
Evolution uses a shared dictionary. Open a terminal. In your home directory, cd into .config/enchant/
. There's a bunch of files here, but a recently edited file corresponding to your language should be listed. For me, it's en_US.dic
- the US english dictionary. Any words you have added will be listed here. Edit the file by typing nano en_US.dic
(or whatever your language is)
Remove or correct words as needed, one word per line.
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Marvellous! I tried to track this down, but that eluded me. Do you have any references that describe the background & reasons behind
.config/enchant/
? Is that aspell, ispell, gnome-spell, something-else-spell? Jan 5, 2010 at 11:54 -
enchant is a generic spell checking library that is compatible with the ispell and aspell engines. Originally developed as part of AbiWord, it's now found in gnome-spell and gtkspell also. See abisource.com/projects/enchant and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enchant_%28software%29 Jan 5, 2010 at 16:11