Re: [Aspell-user] Where is the personal dictionary for English language?

[Swarup]

On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 20:39 -0600, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> [Added aspell-user back on the CC list, please do not email me directly.]
> 
> On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Swarup wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 10:22 -0600, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> >> On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Swarup wrote:
> >>
> >>> In my home directory there is a hidden file by the name .aspell.hi.pws,
> >>> which is the "personal" aspell Hindi dictionary i.e if I add words to
> >>> the Hindi dictionary, they get added to this file. In the same way if I
> >>> add a word to the English dictionary, where is the file to which the
> >>> word gets added? I don't see a similarly named file for English in my
> >>> home directory. Sometimes I may add a word in error, and later need to
> >>> remove it. For that reason I am asking.
> >>
> >> It should be ".aspell.en.pws".  It may not exist because you have not
> >> added any English words to your personal dictionary.
> >
> > I have added many words. Not only that, but I have added some which I
> > wish to remove. That is the reason I was searching for this file.
> 
> Then try this do:
>    aspell --lang=en dump config
> 
> Than at the value of the following settings:
>    home-dir
>    personal
> 
> It should tell the the exact value when configured for the English 
> language.  If that doesn't help than I really don't know where Aspell is 
> storing them.  It could be that it is really Hunspell that is being used, 
> in which case I can not help you.

Is this what you are referring to--

# home-dir (string)
#   location for personal files
# default: <$HOME|./> = /home/swarup

I am not using Hunspell, to the best of my knowledge. I am working in
gedit, and the spellchecker I am using is aspell. I edit the aspell
Hindi dictionary all the time, adding to it, changing words, removing
words. And in the gedit tools menu I can select English or Hindi as the
spellchecker. If the Hindi spellchecker in that very menu is aspell,
then I would imagine the English spellchecker is also aspell.