ENCHANT(1)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, meet Enchant — she's a spellchecker 💅 and she is literally the moment.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Enchant is an ispell-compatible spellchecker. that's it, that's the whole vibe. she plays nice with ispell, no cap 🫶

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -a — list alternatives. like, show me the other options bestie 💖
• -l — list only the misspellings. nothing else, just the wrong ones 😭
• -L — include the line number in the output. so you know exactly where it went down 🔥
• -v — prints the program's version. gotta know what era of Enchant you're on ⭐

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👑 ENCHANT ORDERING FILE 👑

so Enchant has an ordering file called enchant.ordering, and there's a global one and a per-user one 🌈 it lets you specify which spelling backend gets used for individual languages, for when you genuinely care which backend shows up to the function 💅

• the global file lives in $(datadir)/enchant
• the per-user file lives in ~/.enchant
• the per-user file takes precedence, if found 👑

the ordering file takes the form language_tag:<comma-separated list of spelling backends>. the backends I'm currently aware of are: aspell, myspell, ispell, uspell, hspell, voikko, and zemberek. '*' means "use this ordering for all languages, unless instructed otherwise." for example:

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

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🧚 DIRECTORIES IMPORTANT TO ENCHANT 🧚

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. messy, I know.

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 dictionaries 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 🫶

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💜 MORE INFORMATION 💜

http://www.abisource.com/enchant/

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🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

aspell(1), ispell(1),

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💌 AUTHOR 💌

Dom Lachowicz

• WEB: http://www.abisource.com/enchant/
• MAIL: domlachowicz@gmail.com

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and that's the whole page bestie!! this was enchant from the Enchant Mini Help File, dated July 2006 — yes she's vintage and she still ate 💅✨ bye love u 🫶🎀