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I'm on Ububtu 20.04, running Kile 2.9.93. Does anyone know where the dictionary is stored? Every now and then I need to change system and then I must add the same exceptions by hand over and over again.

I saw this question from 2010:

Where is Kile's dictionary?

however, the files I have in .config/enchant/ are all empty. Searching for *dic was also not enlightening. Maybe something changed in the meantime?

Does anyone have other ideas? Can I find kile's inner settings somewhere?

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    What does dpkg -L kile tell you?
    – waltinator
    Mar 11, 2022 at 1:14
  • Good idea! So, I see the bin file, a libkdeinit5_kile.so in /usr/lib/ and lots of files in /usr/share/. Among them is config.kcfg/kile.kcfg, which contains many options but none of them seems obviously related with the spellcheck. Another file of interest is kile/kilestdtools.rc, but I didn't have luck there either. What should I be looking for? Mar 12, 2022 at 11:37
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    Personally I added AVerySpecificPattern to Kile dictionary, then I ran sudo grep -rI 'AVerySpecificPattern' ~/ 2> /dev/null and found out ~/.hunspell_fr_FR (I configured to some extent Kile to French). Nov 16, 2023 at 19:28

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As everyone says, the answer depends on the dictionary system in use. It appears that my installation of Ubuntu 20.04 uses aspell: I found the list of added words in a file called .aspell.en.pws in my home folder.

I was actually looking for something like it, I don't know why it took me so long to find it (I only noticed it running sudo find -name "*spell*" from the root folder). I am answering this question, just in case someone like me is also searching for it.

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