On Wednesday 16 February 2005 12:59 am, Anton Leuski wrote: > I guess it's not possible to remove words from the personal and session > word lists, right? When I try the remove method on a personal word > list from a Speller instance it comes back with > > The method "remove" is unimplemented in "WritableDict"
1)There was some talk about removing "word-lists": http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/aspell-devel/2004-11/msg00018.html 2)This would imply that you need to "edit" out the individual word, then rebuild again: http://aspell.sourceforge.net/man-html/Creating-an-Individual-Word-List.html 3)and this appears to state you need to do it using another editor: http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/users/2003-May/009353.html > Or am I missing something? Can you give me any advice on how implement > the remove method? Or (even better :-)) when is it going to implemented > in the main code base? If you have a patch, please send it in, otherwise, lacking a remove feature, you may best be following the suggestions shown in #3 above. Quote: ---------------- The personal dictionary is stored in ~/.aspell.en.pws (for English; other languages work analogously, I imagine). It's a text file with one word per line. Edit out the errant word to remove it. ---------------- At this point in time, most users would probably be trying to add words to a dictionary so the idea you suggest of removing words probably hasn't come up often. The question you ask about removing a word may be a good idea with a personal dictionary but has a few interesting quirks when speaking of a "common" dictionary. For example, in the common dictionary, would you want it to be something "blacklisted" from one user (let us suppose, a young kid doesn't need to see some dirty words at their age yet), or is it something that is definitely in error and should be completely removed? In a personal computer, where there is only one user, the common dictionaries could be treated as personal dictionaries, so editing would be an easy question, however, in a Unix type of environment, and Windows NT (or higher) there is also the question of "ownership" of files that come into play. Would you want 1 user to be able to remove a word seen by all users of that dictionary?.... for example, a workplace, library, or other spot where many users use such a machine? Just some thoughts. If you have a patch or fix (partial or complete), please send one in to sourceforge. _______________________________________________ Aspell-devel mailing list Aspell-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-devel
