Subj : GoldEd & Dictionary
To   : Nicholas Boel
From : Alan Ianson
Date : Sun May 18 2025 07:31 pm

>> Golded doesn't do anything right out of the box. It needs to be
>> configured first.

> Right. You didn't mention that whatsoever.

Do I need to mention that?

> Instead, you pressed him to install hunspell,

I am not pressing anything.

> which I don't see mentioned anywhere in the manuals. I'd imagine more than
> just hunspell would work,

I think any spell checker that you can call externally can be made to work.

>> That might be so, but it doesn't hurt to mention that golded needs
>> hunspell and at least one wordlist to check your spelling.

>> Yes, and he will need hunspell to utilize the spell checker in golded.

> Could you point me to where you see 'hunspell' specifically mentioned,
> please?

It may mention MySpell. Hunspell and it's dictionaries are compatible with MySpell.

I don't have a working golded.cfg at the moment but I think I used these keywords in my config.

SCheckerEnabled Auto

SCheckerDicPath /usr/share/hunspell <- adjust as needed

SCheckerDefLang en_US

You can look up these keywords in the advanced.cfg from the source archive and probably others.

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