Using an aspell dictionary in Eclipse

Posted on November 19th, 2008 at 12:59
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Eclipse has built-in support for spell checking but it only includes two platform dictionaries: English (United Kingdom) and English (United States). Fortunately it is possible to use any aspell dictionary in Eclipse.

Here's how I enabled the Dutch aspell dictionary in Eclipse (on Ubuntu):

  1. Execute
    sudo apt-get install aspell aspell-nl gawk
  2. Execute
    aspell dump master nl | awk -F/ '{print $1}' >dictionary.txt
  3. In Eclipse's preferences, open the page "General > Editors > Text Editors > Spelling".
  4. Enter the path to your dictionary.txt file in the field User defined dictionary.
  5. Restart Eclipse.

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On February 1st, 2009 Vlad (not verified) said:

Very useful information. Thanks!
There is another way to create such dictionary:
aspell dump master nl | cut -d / -f 1 > /tmp/dict.txt

On February 27th, 2009 Anonymous (not verified) said:

HOLY CRAP! THIS IS AMAZING! I've been trying for over a month to find a suitable dictionary (and of the proper format) for eclipse. Thank you very much.

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