ENCHANT-2(1)

✨ ENCHANT-2 ✨

okay bestie, buckle up — this is the enchant-2 page from the General Commands Manual, and it's literally the manual for a whole spellchecker 💅 no cap

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🌸 NAME 🌸

Enchant — a spellchecker. yeah that's it, that's the whole name section, she's a woman of few words 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

enchant-2 -a|-l|-h|-v [-L] [-d DICTIONARY] [FILE]

like… you gotta pick one of -a, -l, -h, or -v (it's giving "choose your fighter"), then the optional extras after 💖

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so Enchant is an Ispell-compatible spellchecker. that's the whole vibe ✨

⚠️ important lore: unlike Ispell, Enchant has no interactive mode. none. zero. she's not here to chat with you, she's designed to be used by other programs. she's the supporting character, the friend who holds your bag while you do your thing 🫶

🌈 also: Enchant requires its input to be UTF-8. fr fr. don't come at her with anything else.

and now the options, the moment you've all been waiting for 👑

• -d DICTIONARY — use the given dictionary 📖 (yes bestie, you get to pick)
• -p WORDLIST — use the given personal wordlist 📝
• -a — list suggestions in Ispell pipe mode format 🚰
• -l — list only the misspellings 👀 nothing else, just the crimes
• -L — display line numbers 🔢 so you know exactly where the chaos lives
• -h — display help and exit 🙋‍♀️ then she's out
• -v — display version information and exit 🏷️ also then she's out

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🧚 ISPELL COMPATIBILITY 🧚

okay so here's the tea ☕ — Enchant does not implement the following Ispell commands and command-line options. but wait, don't panic: they are all accepted, ignored, and have no effect. she's just nodding politely, smiling, and doing absolutely nothing with them 💀

• -m
• -B
• -C
• + — Enter TeX mode
• - — Enter nroff mode (the default)
• ~ — Set parameters based on file name
• ` — Enter verbose-correction mode

so like, ghosted. accepted but ghosted 🙈

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🍓 FILES AND DIRECTORIES 🍓

all the deets on configuration files and personal word lists live over in enchant(5) — go check her out, she's iconic 💖

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• enchant(5)
• aspell(1)
• enchant-lsmod-2(1)

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🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Written by Dom Lachowicz and Reuben Thomas. absolute legends, we stan 🫶✨

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and that's the whole page bestie!! this was ENCHANT-2(1) from the General Commands Manual — mwah, go spell some stuff 💅💖🎀