Feature request: get location of personal dictionary file
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For context, I'm using Jinx which is an Emacs frontend to Enchant.
I would like to know where words get saved when I add them to my personal dictionary. I'm using aspell with Nix, and it's not entirely apparent to me where those words go—they don't seem to be appearing in ~/.aspell.en.pwl.
It would be nice if there were a little function that we could call to ask Enchant where it is storing words.
The location of personal wordlists is documented in enchant(1). This is a fairly straightforward aspect of Enchant (in particular in Enchant 2.5, which no longer supports spelling providers' personal wordlists), so I don't think it's worth adding API functionality for. Effectively, it's a constant that Jinx could easily compute; in any case, "a little function that we could call" sounds to me like you mean "a little Jinx function", so I'd suggest a feature request for Jinx (which I must get around to trying some time!).
Oh wonderful! Thank you! I opened an issue for Jinx a while back but I don't think Enchant 2.5 was out. I found the file with no problem. Thank you!
I noticed there were some file-local vars set when I was poking around the source code—nice to meet another Emacs user in the wild. :) Jinx is excellent and I highly recommend using it! (Works best with Vertico if you're not using that already too.)
Thanks for the tips!