On Jun 12, 2011, at 04:17, Bill Thayer wrote: > I used BBEdit 8 for several years; now I have a new Mac and am using 9.6. I > added to my spelling dictionary some 94,000 words; I haven't figured out, nor > seen online, how to port it over to the new BBEdit. ______________________________________________________________________
Hey Bill, BBEdit is now using the system-wide AppleSpell service, and I don't think you can add any custom words to it [BBEdit] now. Here's where the AppleSpell add-on file is located: ~/Library/Spelling/LocalDictionary I just did the experiment of adding and subtracting words from it [with BBEdit] and killing the AppleSpell process from the Terminal; my changes took. In the Terminal or a BBEdit Worksheet (if you allowed the bbedit tool to be installed): bbedit ~/Library/Spelling/LocalDictionary You could open your custom dictionary in BBEdit and do a spell check to remove any items that are already in AppleSpell and then add your items to the LocalDictionary file and sort. Then kill AppleSpell, and things should just work. There used to be a fairly nifty 3rd-party preference pane that provided a UI for this file, but I can't seem to find it anywhere now. BBEdit supports Excalibur in the expert preferences section of the help. http://excalibur.sourceforge.net/index.html cocoAspell lets you add dictionaries and features to AppleSpell, but I haven't used it. I just spent a few minutes looking it over - it's somewhat complicated, and I don't have a feel for how smoothly it works with Snow Leopard. (There is no current indication that it will be updated for Lion.) http://cocoaspell.leuski.net/ http://people.ict.usc.edu/~leuski/cocoaspell/faq.php http://people.ict.usc.edu/~leuski/cocoaspell/problems.php You can also use something like Typinator, TypeIt4Me, TextExpander, Spell Catcher X, or Grammarian PRO2 X to get more specific in how you apply your corrections. I've used all of them at one time or another. They all work with Snow Leopard and should be updated for Lion. -- Best Regards, Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at <http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en> If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit>
