Installers Should Copy Personal Dictionary

[Stephan Witt]

Am 16.07.2024 um 17:25 schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck <rikiheck at gmail.com>:
> 
> This was a bug report on the user's list: On Windows, the personal dictionary apparently was not copied over to the new user directory. We might check that this is done on OSX, as well.

I didn’t check… but on OSX the contents of the LyX user directory is copied on first run of the next major release to the new location. So it should copy the pwl*.dict too. But the original idea was to copy the resources to allow parallel use of next version (e.g. to test it) and run the current (or the old one) version w/o conflicts. The personal dictionary file is version agnostic - perhaps it should be placed elsewhere instead.

To get the initial copy one may check the configure.py and remove the platform check for „darwin“ or add the Windows platform.

Stephan

> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject:	Re: Location of personal dictionary
> Date:	Tue, 16 Jul 2024 11:26:50 +0200
> From:	Matthias Schmidt <gm at schmidtfamilie.de>
> To:	Jürgen Spitzmüller <jspitzm at gmail.com>, lyx-users at lists.lyx.org
> CC:	lyx-users at lists.lyx.org
> 
> 
> Thank you very much for your help. I was able to solve the problem.
>  
> I use Windows 10. I found the file - in my case pwl_ngerman.dict - in the directory C:\user\'myname'\Appdata\Roaming\LyX2.3.
>  
> Matthias
> 
> 
> 
> Monday, July 15, 2024, 6:19:14 PM, schrieben Sie:
> 
> Am Montag, dem 15.07.2024 um 11:58 -0400 schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck:
> LyX does not handle this itself. Rather, it is using some other
> backend spellchecker, like Hunspell (also used by Chrome, Firefox,
> LibreOffice, etc). If you look under Tools> Preferences> Language
> Settings> Spellchecker, you can find out what spell checker is being
> used. Then try searching the web for info on where the personal
> dictionary is stored.
> 
> The spell checkers have their own files, yes.
> 
> However, LyX also stores personal word lists under the name
> pwl_<language>.dict (I am not sure it is used by all spell checker
> backends, but it is at least by aspell, hunspell and enchant).
> 
> These files are located in your user directory (see Help > About LyX
> for where this is).
> 
> On some OSes (Mac I think), each major version has its own user
> directory (with a version suffix). You might find your files in the one
> of 2.3 and then copy them to the 2.4 directory.
> 
> Ideally, these files should be copied over by the installers on
> upgrading, as we do with other files.
> 
> -- 
> Jürgen
> 
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> Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
> Matthias Schmidt
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