How to change Dictionary in Aspell

Linux
#1

It must be all down to my stupidity! I have loadd 2 dictionaries in aspell- English and German. After extensive searching I still have not found out how to change dictinaries for spell checking.

Any hints please?

thanks in advance- a linux newbie,

Robert

#2

@Bob_G

Do you want to use them in LibreOffice? I use hunspell for that. I’m not quite sure what you want. Which distro are you using?

You can also check which dictionaries you have installed - try this:

Open your Writer, and then go to tools > options > Language settings > Writing aids

You should see something like this (you may see some other dictionaries but these should be checked)

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Make sure that Available language modules space is not empty.

#3

Hi Branko,
thanks for the reply. At the moment I am just trying to change dictionaries in vi. Haven’t managed to figure out how to do it . :worried:

#4

OK, I use VIM, but it should be the same. Could you try this and see if it works:

:setlocal spell spelllang=en_us

and

:setlocal spell spelllang=de

http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/spell.html

#5

Thanks a lot, Branko! That was the answer, solved my problem.

Wish you a nice weekend,
Robert

#6

Great!

And to avoid doing that for each session, just add that line e.g

setlocal spell spelllang=en_us

to your vimrc file to start spellcheck automatically. On my Arch Linux, it’s in /etc/vimrc but on your distro it might be somewhere else.

Best wishes and have a nice one yourself! :blush:

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