[Aspell-user] Personal word list problems

[Maurice Rickard]

Has anyone managed to get personal word lists working in 
aspell-0.50.2-1?  I've been unable to add words to the word list, and 
consequently have been unable to have these custom words recognized 
as "good" by Aspell.

I see that installing Aspell *did* result in the creation of 
.aspell.en.pws and .aspell.en.prepl files in my home directory (Mac 
OS X).  I also see that an aspell config dump from the command line 
tells me that Aspell expects to find those files there.

These, however, are the problems:

1) When I have Aspell process a file (through a pipe) containing the 
words I want to add (each on a separate line preceded by a *), Aspell 
*seems* to work, but nothing happens--nothing shows up in the 
.aspell.en.pws file, and checking those words with Aspell shows me 
that Aspell still thinks they're wrong.

2) Manually editing the .aspell.en.pws file to insert the words puts 
them in the file, but Aspell still thinks they're wrong.

3) When I add --personal=/Users/home/.aspell.en.pws to the aspell 
command, Aspell appears not to work.  While my interface to the pipe 
tells me that Aspell found no errors with the test words, it also 
finds no errors with anything (for example, "adfdnbasiuif" isn't 
flagged as an error).

4) When I create the aspell.conf file (which doesn't seem to have 
been created) and point Aspell at the personal word list, it behaves 
as above.

So any recommendations for how to make this work?  I have a client 
who needs to have a working personal word list.

Thanks for any help  you can give,
M
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Maurice Rickard
http://mauricerickard.com/