TMISPELL(1)

✨ TMISPELL ✨ (section 1 of the manual, bestie)

okay so you found the tmispell page in the General Commands Manual and now you're here and I'm SO glad you are, because this little icon is genuinely one of my faves 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

tmispell — an ispell wrapper that uses Voikko to do the actual spell-checking 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

tmispell [-F config_file] [ispell_options] [file ...]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so, tmispell? it's an ispell(1) wrapper, right, but instead of doing the spell-checking itself it hands that job over to the Voikko spell-checking system. and the language it's checking? Finnish. that's the whole vibe 🇫🇮✨

here's the part that makes it so useful, no cap: a TON of programs out there — email clients, word processors, the usual suspects — use Ispell for their spell-checking. and since tmispell is a transparent wrapper for Ispell, all those programs that would normally reach for Ispell will just… automatically get tmispell instead. which means they get Voikko too. and they don't need a single change. not one. iconic behavior honestly 👑

oh and bonus: tmispell can also launch the real Ispell if tmispell doesn't support whatever language got selected. but plot twist — you don't actually need the real Ispell installed. tmispell works perfectly fine without it. only catch is, in that case Finnish is currently the only supported language. that's it, that's the tradeoff 🍓

you can run tmispell from the command line exactly like Ispell. and if it's installed correctly, typing the command ispell literally starts tmispell. sneaky. love that for us.

use it to spell-check any text file(s) you hand it as command line parameters. and if you do give it a text file? it drops into interactive mode. press ? in there to get help on the available commands. you're welcome bestie 💖

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -F config_file — use the configuration file config_file instead of the default one, which is /etc/tmispell.conf. like, a different config file. your own config file. main character config file energy 💅
• ispell_options — tmispell should understand every option that Ispell understands. for the full rundown on Ispell's options, go see ispell(1). iykyk 🫶

🦋 FILES 🦋

• /etc/tmispell.conf — the default configuration file for tmispell. want more info on it? check tmispell.conf(5) 🌸

👑 AUTHORS 👑

the original Tmispell was programmed by Pauli Virtanen <pauli.virtanen@hut.fi> 🎀

modifications and the whole integration with the Voikko spell-checking system were done by Harri Pitkänen <hatapitk@iki.fi> ✨

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• tmispell.conf(5)
• ispell(1)
• Voikko homepage: http://voikko.sourceforge.net/ 🌐

lowkey obsessed with how this whole thing just slots into your existing setup with zero drama. go spell-check something, bestie 💜

and that's the page!! this version was cooked up in the General Commands Manual, dated 2008-02-13, filed under TMISPELL(1) — mwah, periodt 💅🎀✨