According to the man page for hunspell (specifically the bit
describing
the "-p" option), the default user dictionary should be called
"$HOME/.hunspell_default" unless you are using hunspell from the
command line and specifying "-p", "-d" or setting the DICTIONARY
environment variable.
I have not set $DICTIONARY. When testing hunspell on the command line, I always just rain
`hunspell test.txt` with no other arguments.
Renaming to ~/.hunspell_default did not fix the spell-checking in other applications.
However, strangely, it did *break* spell-checking via the hunspell CLI. `hunspell
test.txt` only works when my personal dictionary is named `~/.hunspell_en_US`.
My guess is that your dictionary isn't being referenced. Try
renaming
it as shown above and try again. Also, "hunspell -D" will show you which
directories are searched, which dictionaries are available and which are
actually being used (based on your locale).
↪ hunspell -D
SEARCH PATH:
.::/usr/share/hunspell:/usr/share/myspell:/usr/share/myspell/dicts:/Library/Spelling:/home/terrycloth/.openoffice.org/3/user/wordbook:.openoffice.org2/user/wordbook:.openoffice.org2.0/user/wordbook:Library/Spelling:/opt/openoffice.org/basis3.0/share/dict/ooo:/usr/lib/openoffice.org/basis3.0/share/dict/ooo:/opt/openoffice.org2.4/share/dict/ooo:/usr/lib/openoffice.org2.4/share/dict/ooo:/opt/openoffice.org2.3/share/dict/ooo:/usr/lib/openoffice.org2.3/share/dict/ooo:/opt/openoffice.org2.2/share/dict/ooo:/usr/lib/openoffice.org2.2/share/dict/ooo:/opt/openoffice.org2.1/share/dict/ooo:/usr/lib/openoffice.org2.1/share/dict/ooo:/opt/openoffice.org2.0/share/dict/ooo:/usr/lib/openoffice.org2.0/share/dict/ooo
AVAILABLE DICTIONARIES (path is not mandatory for -d option):
/usr/share/myspell/en_AG
/usr/share/myspell/en_AU
/usr/share/myspell/en_BS
/usr/share/myspell/en_BW
/usr/share/myspell/en_BZ
/usr/share/myspell/en_DK
/usr/share/myspell/en_GH
/usr/share/myspell/en_HK
/usr/share/myspell/en_IE
/usr/share/myspell/en_IN
/usr/share/myspell/en_JM
/usr/share/myspell/en_MW
/usr/share/myspell/en_NA
/usr/share/myspell/en_NG
/usr/share/myspell/en_NZ
/usr/share/myspell/en_PH
/usr/share/myspell/en_SG
/usr/share/myspell/en_TT
/usr/share/myspell/en_ZA
/usr/share/myspell/en_ZM
/usr/share/myspell/en_ZW
/usr/share/myspell/en_CA
/usr/share/myspell/en_GB
/usr/share/myspell/en_US
LOADED DICTIONARY:
/usr/share/myspell/en_US.aff
/usr/share/myspell/en_US.dic
Hunspell 1.4.0