On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 12:46:13PM -0700, Lloyd Hayes wrote: > > I recently accidentally saved some words using Evolution which should > not have been saved. I asked on this list and the Evolution list which > file needed to be edited. I got the reply to look for this file: > "~/.aspell.en.pws" > > Doing a search of FC3 on my computer, there is no "aspell.en.pws" on my > computer. > But I can find "/usr/lib/aspell/en_US-only.rws", > "/usr/lib/aspell/en-only.rws", "/usr/lib/aspell/en_GB-only.rws", and > "/usr/lib/aspell/en_CA-only.rws". > > Does anyone know if these are files to edit? > I tried using "gedit" to edit one of these files, but it doesn't work. > How do you edit these files? Somehow you missed the '.' -- these are 'hidden' files in your home directory. $ ls ~/.aspell.* .aspell.conf .aspell.english.pws .aspell.en.pws .aspell.english.prepl .aspell.en.prepl Note the dot. Note also that english and en are not the only languages in the world. If by chance Evolution is not using aspell you can still find the file that Evolution keeps it's hints in. touch /tmp/now # run Evolution and add a 'silly' non problematic word find ~ -newer /tmp/now You should see a short list of files to inspect, research and fix. This trick works for most programs when you want to see what files they adjust and keep state in. Note that 'locate' will index files in the system. So try "locate aspell" and look for files in your home dir. You can also tidy up the personal words file (pws) with /usr/bin/aspell. Type /usr/bin/aspell -? for help. It is a moderately opaque tool, in part because other programs use it insulating the user from the need to know how it works. -- T o m M i t c h e l l Found me a new place to hang my hat :-)
