ENCHANT-2(1) General Commands Manual ENCHANT-2(1)

Enchant - a spellchecker

enchant-2 -a|-l|-h|-v [-L] [-d DICTIONARY] [FILE]

Enchant is an Ispell-compatible spellchecker. Note that unlike Ispell, it does not have an interactive mode; it is designed to be used by other programs. Enchant requires its input to be UTF-8.

use the given dictionary
use the given personal wordlist
list suggestions in Ispell pipe mode format
list only the misspellings
display line numbers
display help and exit
display version information and exit

Enchant does not implement the following Ispell commands and command-line options. They are all accepted, but ignored, and have no effect.

+
Enter TeX mode
-
Enter nroff mode (the default)
~
Set parameters based on file name
`
Enter verbose-correction mode

See enchant(5) for details of configuration files and personal word lists.

enchant(5), aspell(1), enchant-lsmod-2(1)

Written by Dom Lachowicz and Reuben Thomas.

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