[peeb]

I mistakenly added a mis-spelling to the OSX spellcheck dictionary - how do I edit it? Thanks!

BTW, in looking for the answer, I found this tip - Press and hold Apple+Control+D over any word in a cocoa application (Safari, iChat, Mail etc...) and up pops a handy dandy Dictionary/Thesaurus.

[kcmac]

If you accidentally add a misspelled word to the dictionary, type the misspelling in the Spelling dialog, then click Forget.

You get to the dialog by Control clicking on the highlighted word. Then when you get the context menu, go down and select Spelling. Click on that and then select Spelling. This will open the dialog box. From their you can tell it to forget the spelling.

I programmed my F8 key to do the Apple+Control+D trick. Fast and easy. A nice feature of OSX.

[peeb]

Thanks!

[JKT]

Btw, the added spellings are recorded to a plain text file in ~/Library/Spelling/ if you want to check what it is you misspelt.

[Simon]

Originally Posted by JKT 

Btw, the added spellings are recorded to a plain text file in ~/Library/Spelling/ if you want to check what it is you misspelt.

Exactly. It's a normal ASCII text file. Just delete the misspelled word and save the file.

[Big Mac]

I think it's interesting that the words in the spelling files aren't separated in any way.

[CharlesS]

Originally Posted by Big Mac 

I think it's interesting that the words in the spelling files aren't separated in any way.

They're separated by null characters on my machine.

[kcmac]

Originally Posted by JKT 

Btw, the added spellings are recorded to a plain text file in ~/Library/Spelling/ if you want to check what it is you misspelt.

What app do you use to open that file? I tried TextEdit and get an error.

[Simon]

% emacs ~/Library/Spelling/en
works here

[peeb]

Thanks - it was that file I was looking for!

[JKT]

Originally Posted by kcmac 

What app do you use to open that file? I tried TextEdit and get an error.

TextEdit!

[CharlesS]

Because of the aforementioned null characters, I'd actually recommend using a hex editor rather than TextEdit to edit that file.

Emacs is good too - it seems to render the null characters as ^@. TextEdit simply doesn't display them or provide you with any way to enter them.

[Simon]

Originally Posted by CharlesS 

Because of the aforementioned null characters, I'd actually recommend using a hex editor rather than TextEdit to edit that file.

Emacs is good too - it seems to render the null characters as ^@. TextEdit simply doesn't display them or provide you with any way to enter them.

I noticed pico and nano display the ^@ as well. So for those not comfortable with Emacs (supposedly they exist!), nano and pico might be a more user-friendly alternative.

[CharlesS]

Originally Posted by Simon 

I noticed pico and nano display the ^@ as well. So for those not comfortable with Emacs (supposedly they exist!), nano and pico might be a more user-friendly alternative.

Well, nano and pico will display them, but I don't know if there's any way to actually enter them. In emacs it can be done with control-q followed by control-@ (ctrl-shift-2).

[JKT]

Originally Posted by CharlesS 

Because of the aforementioned null characters, I'd actually recommend using a hex editor rather than TextEdit to edit that file.

Emacs is good too - it seems to render the null characters as ^@. TextEdit simply doesn't display them or provide you with any way to enter them.

Note - I didn't say to use TextEdit to edit the file, just to find any words you misspelled so you can use the Forget method (e.g. you might not remember how you misspelled it!).

[kcmac]

Okay. I can open and look at the file with TextEdit. Just didn't work the first time for some reason.