I misclicked when correcting a spelling error when using Kate and added the misspelled word to my dictionary, how do I go about removing it?

I use evince as PDF viewer and I noticed an annoying issue: spell check language list is filled with useless english variants; (see screenshot below) Question is: **How to trim down the list to a couple of entries?** I am Italian but I also write in English so I need both language but, thus I have installed both aspell-en,aspell-it packages; Even if all those English variants have probably a good reason to exists, I do not need and I want to hide them, since make the workflow more complicated and a waste of time. --- **EDIT:** 1. this question is *evince* or better ***aspell***-specific, since the former's spell checker is based on it; 2. I am looking for **any** kind of solution: a *"proper"* one if it exists, or a brutal one as @tink point out, that's simply delete implicated files --- Arch Linux w/ Evince-46.3.1 aspell-0.60.8.1 aspell-en-2020.12.07

I use Vim Spell to check many LaTeX files, which get identified as ft=plaintex. They are mostly regular text words, without markup syntax. In many cases I have entire paragraphs without syntax. Occasionally I do have markup, like \dosomething Vim Spell skips checking my special commands, like \dosomething exactly as desired... except inside comments. I don't want \dosomething checked there either. If I find a paragraph I don't like, I comment the paragraph out with a **%** percent sign. However, if I do that, then my markup syntax gets flagged as spelled wrong. \dosomething then gets flagged as bad spelling "dosomething" spelled wrong. I want Vim Spell to skip over \dosomething even if it's within a commented out paragraph. I could zg the word in normal mode while using :set spell but I'd rather Spell just skip my LaTeX syntax automatically, both in comments and outside of comments. Is there a way I can tell Vim to skip flagging syntax words inside of my comments? Another similar question explains that Vim will check the comments for misspelled words. I know that. I want to turn it off.

On Debian 12, I have installed additional language hunspell dictionaries: But when I start Thunderbird 102, it does not see them. When I click on Languages, it only offers the default English (United States) Hunspell dictionary works when I install the dictionary locally as Addon. But then, I would have to install it individually for all my profiles. Howe can I install hunspell dictionary as Debian package and use it in Thunderbird ?

I want to make hunspell work with emacs24 and a german dictionary on a ubuntu 13.04-box. To do so I installed hunspell and hunspell-de and added the following to my .emacs file: (setq ispell-program-name "hunspell") (setq ispell-dictionary "deutsch8") When I open a file in emacs and start flyspell-buffer I get Starting new Ispell process [[hunspell::deutsch8]] but it blocks the emacs buffer (mouse becomes a rotating disk indicating to wait) and works for endless without showing any results. So there must be something wrong with my config. Without the second line it works, but only for english texts. So what's the best way to setup hunspell for emacs24 with a german dictionary on ubuntu 13.04? Are there any possible pitfalls?

I would like to run a spellchecker over my articles before I publish them. I think aspell is ok, but it should not try to check code blocks: asdfasdfa adsfa sdfa text to check adsfasd f

a wild code block appeared!
    thisHas quiteOften() some strings.that should NOT get changed

and also inlined code should not get checked **Do command line based spellcheckers exist for Linux that are aware of Markdown and hence ignore code blocks?** I need to be able to run this in batch mode for multiple files. (Bonus points if you know one that really understands LaTeX - no, aspell -t does not completely work)

Normally I have the US English spell-checking dictionary as default then I add others that I need (French, Romanian, etc). But in Fedora 36 Firefox came with a lot of different English dictionaries that fill the menu. resource://gre/dictionaries/ shows only en-US, and about:addons only what I have added (French). --- Edit after comment: rpm -qa | grep spell | sort hunspell-1.7.0-19.fc36.x86_64 hunspell-en-0.20140811.1-22.fc36.noarch hunspell-en-GB-0.20140811.1-22.fc36.noarch hunspell-en-US-0.20140811.1-22.fc36.noarch hunspell-filesystem-1.7.0-19.fc36.x86_64

I would like to learn the **canonical way for adding system-wide language support on Fedora** Workstation or confirm that there is none. I intend to preserve my interface language, but add all other associated language tools, such as spell-checking dictionaries, hyphenation assistance, etc. I know I can enable all of this by installing relevant individual packages manually, but I would like to rely on the distribution maintainers to decide what packages are necessary. Is such approach supported? The Fedora documentation seems to cover only the system locale and keyboard configuration , but not the spell-checking. During Fedora installation, I specified Ukrainian as my system language. However, only English spell-checking was installed by default. hunspell-uk wasn't installed. For instance, in the GNOME text editor (gedit), there were only English spell-checking dictionaries. When I opened LibreOffice Writer for the first time, a system pop-up prompted for installation of additional packages, which completed automatically once confirmed. So, now, I have hunspell-uk and other packages for spell-checking and hyphenation in Ukrainian in LibreOffice, GNOME text editor, and in Firefox (after restart).

$ LC_ALL=C dnf history info 21
Transaction ID : 21
Begin time     : Sun Aug 29 19:17:00 2021
Begin rpmdb    : 1760:50e6a4d235a9a38ca4c583e8a47bd6091ec988c0
End time       : Sun Aug 29 19:17:01 2021 (1 seconds)
End rpmdb      : 1769:e7ecb46ec061ec5ad63f3c0b121ecb0e013a7ab3
User           : Roman Riabenko 
Return-Code    : Success
Releasever     : 
Command Line   : 
Comment        : 
Packages Altered:
    Install glibc-langpack-uk-2.33-20.fc34.x86_64           @updates
    Install libreoffice-help-uk-1:7.1.5.2-5.fc34.x86_64     @updates
    Install libreoffice-langpack-uk-1:7.1.5.2-5.fc34.x86_64 @updates
    Install hunspell-uk-1.8.0-7.fc34.noarch                 @fedora
    Install hyphen-uk-0.20030903-22.fc34.noarch             @fedora
    Install langpacks-core-font-uk-3.0-14.fc34.noarch       @fedora
    Install langpacks-core-uk-3.0-14.fc34.noarch            @fedora
    Install langpacks-uk-3.0-14.fc34.noarch                 @fedora
    Install mythes-uk-1.6.5-20.fc34.noarch                  @fedora

For context, I will explain how I was dealing with it under Debian. With Debian, assuming I chose Ukrainian as my system language during installation, I get both English and Ukrainian support installed automatically out-of-the-box. I know that, during installation, the configuration is handled by tasksel. So, after installation, I can run tasksel install russian russian-desktop. It effectively installs metapackages task-russian and task-russian-desktop that rely on the necessary packages without me needing to learn or remember what are those packages. It seems to introduce some packages that I don't really need, like some converters that I never use, but I consider it to be a trade-off of relying on someone else for making an educated decision to cover most use cases. Is there any similar global configuration for language support on Fedora? In GNOME settings, I added Russian as another input language, so that I could enter text from keyboard, but this did not bring spell-cheking. I could also change the language for the GUI, but I do not want to do that and it does not promise to provide spell-checking. I found that there are langpacks-* in Fedora repositories, but, in case of langpacks-uk and langpacks-ru, the package brings only font packages and not spell-checking packages like hunspell-ru, aspell-ru, hyphen-ru, etc. Is it a bug?

$ LC_ALL=C dnf info langpacks-ru
Last metadata expiration check: 3:25:16 ago on Sat Sep 25 14:07:02 2021.
Installed Packages
Name         : langpacks-ru
Version      : 3.0
Release      : 14.fc34
Architecture : noarch
Size         : 400  
Source       : langpacks-3.0-14.fc34.src.rpm
Repository   : @System
From repo    : fedora
Summary      : Russian langpacks meta-package
License      : GPLv2+
Description  : This package provides Russian langpacks meta-package.

$ LC_ALL=C dnf repoquery --depends langpacks-ru
Last metadata expiration check: 2:36:48 ago on Sun Aug 29 19:05:55 2021.
langpacks-core-ru
pt-sans-fonts
$ LC_ALL=C dnf repoquery --depends langpacks-core-ru
Last metadata expiration check: 2:37:44 ago on Sun Aug 29 19:05:55 2021.
langpacks-core-font-ru
$ LC_ALL=C dnf repoquery --depends langpacks-core-font-ru
Last metadata expiration check: 2:36:48 ago on Sun Aug 29 19:05:55 2021.
dejavu-sans-fonts

I learned that I can list package groups available for installation with dnf grouplist, but there appears to be no language-specific groups.

Where does aspell store my own added words (with the 'a' option) and how can I manipulate this list? I hope aspell stores this in a separate dictionary, separate from the language dictionary. The background is that I want to review this list on a regular interval.

I have enabled correction (I wouldn't call it *autocorrection* specifically because of this issue) in zsh by enabling setopt correct in my .zshrc. Now, when I type dtae in a terminal, I get: dtae zsh: correct 'dtae' to 'date' [nyae]? y Tue Mar 31 11:39:31 CEST 2015 At this point I would like zsh to remember my decision. So the next time I type dtae it should automatically correct to date . However, this does not happen, and zsh is again asking me what to do: dtae zsh: correct 'dtae' to 'date' [nyae]? Unless, of course, if at that time there exists an actual dtae command or alias. **Update:** I have managed to modify the zsh source code (file utils.c, function spckword) to create a custom file containing the aliases automatically created with the invocation of zsh's "correct" functionality: original: if (x == 'y' || x == ' ' || x == '\t') { *s = dupstring(best); if (hist) hwrep(best); } modified: if (x == 'y' || x == ' ' || x == '\t') { char *aliaspath = getenv("HOME"); strcat(aliaspath, "/.zsh_correct_aliases"); FILE *out = fopen(aliaspath, "ab+"); fprintf(out, "alias %s=\'", *s); *s = dupstring(best); fprintf(out, "%s\'\n", *s); fclose(out); if (hist) hwrep(best); } Upon executing dtae, the following line is added to the file ~/.zsh_correct_aliases: alias dtae='date' However, I don't know how to source the newly modified ~/.zsh_correct_aliases file in-place.

I'm a C/C++ professional programmer who makes lots of spelling mistakes in comments. I want to configure vim such that the spell-checker only looks for misspelled words within comments. If necessary I'm willing to add special symbols around the comment that vim can look for to know where to check, such as: int main(){ /**/ } If the plugin can work without the C_S symbols that'd be even better. I want the spell-checker to highlight any spelling mistakes it finds within comments. Does this already exist? Or is it easy to write myself?

When I turn on spell checking for Czech language, this happens:

:Sccz
No spell file for "cz" in utf-8
Download it?

Downloading cz.utf-8.spl...
:!curl 'http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/spell/cz.utf-8.spl ' -L -o '/tmp/nvimfQsady/1.spl'
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   309  100   309    0     0   1931      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  1931
"/tmp/nvimfQsady/1.spl" 9L, 309C
Could not find it, trying cz.ascii.spl...
:!curl 'http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/spell/cz.ascii.spl ' -L -o '/tmp/nvimfQsady/1.spl'
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   309  100   309    0     0   1861      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  1861
"/tmp/nvimfQsady/1.spl" 9L, 309C
Download failed
Warning: Cannot find word list "cz.utf-8.spl" or "cz.ascii.spl"
Press ENTER or type command to continue

How can I fix this problem ?

I'm running the latest Claws-Mail (v3.17.6) on Arch Linux and downloaded the latest hunspell-en_CA package (v2019.10.06). When I go to 'Configuration > Preferences > Spell Checking' the 'Default Dictionary' drop down has nothing in it. I found the hunspell dictionary files are located in '/usr/share/hunspell/'. Is Claws-Mail looking in a different directory? Can I maybe link to these files? Does anyone know how to get this working in Claw-Mail? EDIT: Here's the error message that I get when I compose or reply/forward to an email. `Spell checker could not be started. Couldn't initialize None dictionary: (null) Couldn't initialize None speller.` Thanks in advance!

When using spellcheck in Thunderbird, I can add a word into custom dictionary, so that Thunderbird does not consider it as misspelling next time. But how can I do the opposite? For some reason, Thunderbird believes that "thew" is an English word, and does not mark it as misspelling (underline) it. "thew" is quite frequent misspelling in my case when I type "the". I checked Cambridge dictionary, and "thew" is not a real word in English. Why does Thunderbird not correct it? How can I fix this ? I am using Thunderbird 68 on Debian 10. I am not sure whether Thunderbird uses aspell or hunspell. I have both installed. How can I check which spellcheck library I am actually using? **EDIT AND UPDATE** The English dictionary in Thunderbird I am using is English (United States). But regardless whether you consider thew a proper English word or not, this was meant as an example. I am interested in a solution where I can tell Thunderbird to mark given word as misspelling, where it previously considered it a legit word.

I am using automatic spellcheck in **Thunderbird v68.8** on Debian Buster (misspelled words are automatically underlined) it works reliably when I create a new empty message but when I am replying to a message (either by clicking on "reply" or "reply all") the spellchecking doesn't always works. By "it doesn't work", I mean that not only is it not automatically enabled, but there is no way to activate spellcheck that i could find. **Is this reliability issue a bug? How can we have the spellcheck system always active, regardless whether it is new message or reply?**

I'm writing my doctoral dissertation using vim and LaTeX, and I spell-check the document using aspell. Sometimes I run across an error that can't suitably be fixed using the built-in spell-check options in aspell. For example the last time I ran into a spell check problem on a repeated word. In addition to fixing the spelling error, I also had to delete on occurence of the word, but aspell didn't give me a way to do that. Is there a way to drop into my editor at the point where aspell finds an error, in order to do more extensive fixes there?

While there are spell-checkers but AFAIK they are limited to spell-checking. Are there any grammar-checking utilities in free software and more precisely Debian. Even if not in Debian, then in free software. I am using the spell-checking tag as those folks would probably be also interested in this.

I am finding myself more and more using French as well as English. I use hunspell (mostly on Slack and Signal) which picks languages from locale, Is there a way to have my locale support both at the same time so that hunspell can correct both English and French side-by-side? My locale currently read: ; locale LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8 It [appears that signal-desktop does not support multiple languages yet…](https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/1659) thus a hunspell solution would be welcome.

I'm not sure, but I remember Ubuntu can do similar to: $ miswrite-command No 'miswrite-command' found, did you mean: 'correct-command' from 'correct-package' (main) Try : sudo apt install correct-package What is the package name to do such things on Debian?

I know how to add custom words to ispell, but I would like to remove certain words from the dictionary. For example, although ass and asses are correct words, I rarely type them, and would like to flag them as likely typos to as and assess. Where does ispell store its dictionary? The man page does not provide the location. Also, the man page makes it seem like there are a lot of steps to build a new dictionary, and it isn't just an ASCII file where I can remove certain words. Any advice how to build a new dictionary without a given word? **Edit** From some hints on: http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/unix/upt/ch29_05.htm It seems like I can start with /usr/share/dict/words, remove the words I don't want, and then make a new ispell dictionary from that. However, I'm having trouble making the new dictionary. buildhash is the key program here, but it wants an affixfile, and I do not know how to generate that file.