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NAME

6       Enchant - a spellchecker
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SYNOPSIS

9       enchant-2 -a|-l|-h|-v [-L] [-d DICTIONARY] [FILE]
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DESCRIPTION

12       Enchant is an ispell-compatible spellchecker.
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14       -d DICTIONARY
15              use the given dictionary
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18              use the given personal wordlist
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20       -a     list suggestions in ispell pipe mode format
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22       -l     list only the misspellings
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24       -L     display line numbers
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26       -h     display help and exit
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28       -v     display version information and exit
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ENCHANT ORDERING FILE

31       Enchant  uses global and per-user ordering files named enchant.ordering
32       to decide which spelling provider to use for particular languages.  The
33       per-user file takes precedence.
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35       The  ordering file takes the form language_tag:<comma-separated list of
36       spelling providers>. To see what providers are available, run  enchant-
37       lsmod-2.  '*' is used to mean "use this ordering for all languages, un‐
38       less instructed otherwise." For example:
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41       en:aspell,hunspell,nuspell
42       en_GB:hunspell,nuspell,aspell
43       fr:hunspell,nuspell,aspell
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FILES AND DIRECTORIES

46       Enchant looks in the following places for files, in decreasing order of
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50              (If the environment variable is set.)
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52       XDG_CONFIG_HOME/enchant (non-Windows systems)
53              Default: ~/.config/enchant
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55       CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA\enchant (Windows systems)
56              Default:  C:\Documents  and Settings\username\Local Settings\Ap‐
57              plication Data\enchant
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59       /usr/share/enchant
60              (Or the equivalent location relative to the enchant library  for
61              a relocatable build.)
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63       Dictionaries are looked for in a subdirectory with the same name as the
64       provider; for example,  /usr/share/enchant/hunspell  and  ~/.config/en‐
65       chant/hunspell.
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67       Some  providers  may also look in a standard system directory for their
68       dictionaries; the hunspell provider can be configured to do so at build
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SEE ALSO

72       aspell(1), enchant-lsmod-2(1)
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AUTHOR

75       Written by Dom Lachowicz and Reuben Thomas.
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