ENCHANT-2(1)

NAME
Enchant - a spellchecker

SYNOPSIS
enchant-2 [-a] [-d dict] [-h] [-l] [-L] [-v]

DESCRIPTION
Enchant is an ispell-compatible spellchecker.

  OPTIONS

-a  List suggestions in ispell pipe mode format.

-d DICTIONARY
    Use the given dictionary.

-h  Show short help.

-l  List only the misspellings.

-L  Include the line number in the output.

-v  Prints the program's version.

ENCHANT ORDERING FILE
Enchant uses global and per-user ordering files named enchant.ordering to decide which spelling provider to use for particular languages. The per-user file takes precedence.

The ordering file takes the form language_tag:<comma-separated list of spelling providers>. To see what providers are available, run enchant-lsmod-2. '*' is used to mean "use this ordering for all languages, unless instructed otherwise." For example:

*:aspell,hunspell
en:aspell,hunspell
en_GB:hunspell,aspell
fr:hunspell,aspell

FILES AND DIRECTORIES
Enchant looks in the following places for files, in decreasing order of precedence:

ENCHANT_CONFIG_DIR
    (If the environment variable is set.)

XDG_CONFIG_HOME/enchant (non-Windows systems)
    Default: ~/.config/enchant

CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA\enchant (Windows systems)
    Default: C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\enchant

${prefix}/share/enchant
    (Or the equivalent location relative to the enchant library for a relocatable build.)

Dictionaries are looked for in a subdirectory with the same name as the provider; for example, ${prefix}/share/enchant/hunspell and ~/.config/enchant/hunspell.

Some providers may also look in a standard system directory for their dictionaries; the hunspell provider can be configured to do so at build time.

SEE ALSO
aspell(1), enchant-lsmod-2(1)

AUTHOR
Written by Dom Lachowicz and Reuben Thomas.