Questions tagged [spell-checking]
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How "trim" spell check's language list (aspell)
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 ...
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hunspell dictionary not recognized in Thunderbird 102, when installed as Debian package
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 ...
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How to remove Firefox supplementary English spellchecking dictionaries?
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 ...
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Vim Spell, how to Not check spelling inside comments
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. ...
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Can I install spell-checking and other language support packages on Fedora without searching them?
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 ...
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Nvim: Warning: Cannot find word list "cz.utf-8.spl" or "cz.ascii.spl"
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/...
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Claws-Mail Spell Checker Not Finding hunspell-en_CA
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 ...
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Thunderbird spellcheck does not mark some misspellings
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, ...
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Thunderbird spellcheck does not work sometimes when replying to message
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 ...
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Remove word accidentally added to dictionary in Kate
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?
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Multiple lanagues in hunspell / locale
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 ...
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Spell-checker for an interactive bash on Debian as Ubuntu?
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 ...
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How to maintain a list of names for the Hunspell spell checker?
Hunspell should help the user to write names properly.
The names should be defined in the home directory of the user, so that every user can define his or her own list of important names.
If a user ...
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How to use the system spell checker dictionary in Firefox?
I want to maintain one good dictionary system wide. Unfortunately there are many applications which use their own Hunspell dictionary.
Finally it depends on the application and its outdated ...
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Adding words to Hunspell dictionary of Typora Markdown Editor in terminal at least
How to add words to a specific Hunspell dictionary? I am trying to add words to the dictionary, but it doesn't work. Not from terminal nor from application Typora that uses the dictionary.
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