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== The Spell Checking Option == | == The Spell Checking Option == | ||
MoinMoin looks for valid words in two places: | [[MoinMoin]] looks for valid words in two places: | ||
* the "dict" directory in the MoinMoin package directory | * the "dict" directory in the [[MoinMoin]] package directory | ||
* the page LocalSpellingWords | * the page [[LocalSpellingWords]] | ||
If the "dbhash" module is available with your Python installation, the files in "dict" are read only ''once'' and stored in a hash table. This speeds up the spell checking process because then the number of words in the ''checked page'' determines the time needed for the checking, ''not'' the number of words in the dictionary (with 250000 words, some hundred milliseconds instead of several seconds). | If the "dbhash" module is available with your Python installation, the files in "dict" are read only ''once'' and stored in a hash table. This speeds up the spell checking process because then the number of words in the ''checked page'' determines the time needed for the checking, ''not'' the number of words in the dictionary (with 250000 words, some hundred milliseconds instead of several seconds). | ||
Latest revision as of 00:34, 29 March 2026
The Spell Checking Option
MoinMoin looks for valid words in two places:
- the "dict" directory in the MoinMoin package directory
- the page LocalSpellingWords
If the "dbhash" module is available with your Python installation, the files in "dict" are read only once and stored in a hash table. This speeds up the spell checking process because then the number of words in the checked page determines the time needed for the checking, not the number of words in the dictionary (with 250000 words, some hundred milliseconds instead of several seconds).
BTW, a UNIX machine normally comes with at least one words file; to use those, create a symlink within the dict directory, like so:
MoinMoin/dict> ln -s /usr/dict/words .
On some systems, the words file is found in "/usr/share/dict/words" instead.
Example
MoinMoin> ls -l dict drwxr-xr-x 7 544 everyone 0 Jan 04 08:29 CVS -rw-r--r-- 1 544 everyone 409067 Jan 04 06:38 american-english -rw-r--r-- 1 544 everyone 2913577 Jan 25 2000 german.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 544 everyone 92631 Nov 30 15:24 top10000de.txt