User Commands                                          enchant(1)



NAME
     enchant -  a spell checker.

SYNOPSIS
     enchant [-a] [-l] [-L] [-v] [filename]

DESCRIPTION
     Enchant is an ispell-compatible spellchecker.

OPTIONS
     The following options are supported:

     -c                      List alternatives.



     -l                      List only the misspellings.



     -L                      Include the line number in the  out-
                             put.



     -v                      Prints the program's version.



FILES
     The following files are used by this application:

     enchant.ordering;       Enchant has a global  and   a   per-
                             user     ordering     file     named
                             enchant.ordering. It  lets the  user
                             specify  which  spelling  backend to
                             use for individual languages in  the
                             case  when  you  care  which backend
                             gets  used.  The  global   file   is
                             located  in  $(datadir)/enchant  and
                             the  per-user  file  is  located  in
                             ~/.enchant.  The per-user file takes
                             precedence, if found.

                             The   ordering   file   takes    the
                             form    languagetag:.  Currently it
                             supports following backends: aspell,
                             myspell,  ispell,   uspell,  hspell.
                             The  comma-separated  list  may  not
                             include  spaces. '*' is used to mean
                             "use   this   ordering    for    all
                             languages,     unless     instructed



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User Commands                                          enchant(1)



                             otherwise." For example:

                             *:aspell,myspell,ispell
                             en:aspell,myspell,ispell
                             enUK:myspell,aspell,ispell
                             fr:myspell,ispell:aspell



ATRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:

     
           ATRIBUTE TYPE               ATRIBUTE VALUE       
    
     Availability                 SUNWgnome-spell             
    
     Interface stability          Volatile                    
    


SEE ALSO
     libenchant(3), enchant-lsmod(1), attributes(5),

NOTES
     Unless configured otherwise, Enchant's Myspell, Ispell,  and
     Uspell  backends  will  look for dictionaries in directories
     specific to Enchant,  and  will  not  use  your  system-wide
     installed  dictionaries. This is for pragmatic reasons since
     many distributions install these dictionaries into different
     locations.

     Like the  enchant.ordering  file  described  above,  Enchant
     looks  in  the global directory for these dictionaries and a
     per-user directory.  The per-user directory takes precedence
     if  it  is found.  Enchant looks for Myspell dictionaries in
     $(datadir)/enchant/myspell and ~/.enchant/myspell.   Enchant
     looks  for  Ispell dictionaries in $(datadir)/enchant/ispell
     and   ~/.enchant/ispell.  Enchant  looks  for  Uspell   dic-
     tionaries        in       $(datadir)/enchant/uspell      and
     ~/.enchant/uspell.

     Packagers and users may wish to make symbolic links  to  the
     system-wide  dictionary directories. Or, preferably, use the
     --with-myspell-dir, --with-ispell-dir, and --with-uspell-dir
     'configure' arguments.

     Written by Jeff Cai, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2008.






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