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2023-10-14 attempts ∞

Configuring custom dictionaries:

According to https://plugins.geany.org/spellcheck.html I have to check Help > Debug Messages and check for the Enchant version.

10:01:38.187695: Gtk CRITICAL	: gtk_widget_get_preferred_width_for_height: assertion 'height >= 0' failed
10:01:48.374624: SpellCheck DEBUG	: Initializing Enchant library version 2.3.1
10:01:48.392811: (NULL) WARNING	: Error loading plugin: 'C:\Program Files\Geany/lib/enchant-2\enchant_aspell.dll': The specified module could not be found.

10:01:48.455269: (NULL) WARNING	: Error loading plugin: 'C:\Program Files\Geany/lib/enchant-2\enchant_nuspell.dll': The specified module could not be found.

10:01:48.470339: (NULL) WARNING	: Error loading plugin: 'C:\Program Files\Geany/lib/enchant-2\enchant_voikko.dll': The specified module could not be found.

10:01:48.476339: SpellCheck WARNING	: Stored language ('en') could not be loaded.
10:01:51.163942: Geany INFO		: Loaded:   C:\Program Files\Geany\lib\geany\spellcheck.dll (Spell Check)

• See also Spellcheck on Windows: The Enchant library couldn’t be initialized (unknown error(maybe the chosen language is not available)) #939

2021-06-05 – 1.37.1 ∞

Fucked if I understand.. am I supposed to install something else to make Hunspell work?

• Make sure you have the Geany-Plugins program, likely from https://www.geany.org/download/releases/

  • Home pages: https://www.geany.org/support/plugins/ https://plugins.geany.org/spellcheck.html
  • I have Geany 1.37.1 installed, and Geany-Plugins 1.37 warns me that “1.37.0 is old”. It’s what the Geany team provides, so I install that anyway.

• Download the two language files.

  1. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LibreOffice/dictionaries/master/en/en_US.dic [ 1 ]
  2. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LibreOffice/dictionaries/master/en/en_US.aff [ 2 ]

• Place them anywhere on your drive, in a sub-directory called hunspell. Perhaps C:\Program Files\Geany dictionaries\hunspell

"blob: 8399e7ca1906e0f89f0fe4da5a05b67f4ccf787f (plain)"

• TODO – install something or other Enchant

  • Nothing has an actual executable.
• Launch Geany
• Tools > Plugin Manager
• [x] Spell Check
• Select “Spell Check” and click [Preferences]
• Behavior > Directory to look for dictionary files [icon]

• TODO – point it at the directory you specified, e.g. C:\Program Files\Geany dictionaries

  • Without the hunspell sub-directory.

• I can’t figure it out: The Enchant library couldn’t be initialized

The Enchant library couldn’t be initialized ∞

The Enchant library couldn’t be initialized (unknown error (maybe the chosen language is not available)).

Make sure you have installed hunspell [ 3 ] ( https://github.com/hunspell/hunspell/releases)

I can’t figure this out.

2017-10-05 – 1.31 ∞

Explored #2017-10-05_1.31[not existing]

• Chocolatey doesn’t have proper support for installing spell checking or geany’s plugins.

• Babun / Cygwin has Geany listed, and it can get installed, but it doesn’t work.

Spell checking does not come with Geany. It is included in a plugins package (with other plugins).

Here’s the solution:

• Install Geany.

  • I used Chocolatey. As admin:
    choco install geany

• Get geany-plugins Win32 Installer

  • Make sure it’s the same version as your installed geany. I don’t know what would happen if they are out of sync.

• Install the plugins to the same directory as Geany.

  • The default the installer suggests was fine for me. For me, that was:
    C:\Program Files (x86)\Geany

• Download the English dictionaries for Apache OpenOffice

  • See also https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/dictionaries/tree/en

• Move that downloaded file to the same directory as Geany.

  • For me, that was:
    C:\Program Files (x86)\Geany
• Launch Geany
• Tools > Plugin Manager
• Find Spell Check
• Click the checkbox to its left. You will get an error message, just close it.
• Click Spell Check’s [Preferences] at the bottom.
• At the bottom, Directory to look for dictionary files:

• .. and it doesn’t work, nevermind.

Notes:

• https://portableapps.com/node/21685 references a dictionary that doesn’t download the correct files.
• The enchant error message

• Enchant (source)

  • Unzip, confirm folder replace..
  • Doesn’t solve the error message.

• obsolete US-English Spell Checking Dictionary

Footnotes

1. was https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/dictionaries/plain/en/en_US.dic [ ↩ ]
2. was https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/dictionaries/plain/en/en_US.aff [ ↩ ]
3. on Wikipedia [ ↩ ]