Trying to implement en_GB spelling dictionary

[ggravlingen]

• OS: MacOS Silicon running a VSCode docker dev container with Linux (Linux 4ceca93ca1ad 5.15.49-linuxkit #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Sep 13 07:51:32 UTC 2022 aarch64 GNU/Linux)
• Install method: direct download
• Version: vale version 2.21.3

Hi,

I'm having a hard time understanding how spell check works with a custom dictionary. Can you please point me in the right direction of what I'm doing wrong here?

This is what I've tried doing so far:

• Read through all other issues here to see if there's something obvious that I'm not seeing. No luck though.
• I've downloaded the two en_UK-files from here and placed them in the fixtures folder.

My general/Spelling.yml looks like so:

# https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/english-dictionaries
# Download and unzip to retrieve the needed files
extends: spelling
message: "'%s' is misspelled"
# Relative to config file
dicpath: ./fixtures/
append: false
level: error
dictionaries:
  - en_GB

This is my .vale.ini:

StylesPath = styles
MinAlertLevel = suggestion

[*]
BasedOnStyles = my, general, Vale

Running this command and I would have expected at least some errors due to the bastardisation of the English language:

(.venv) vscode ➜ /workspaces/python-vale (main ✗) $ vale --config /workspaces/python-vale/.vale.ini "This is quite obvisly a teached afair."
✔ 0 errors, 0 warnings and 0 suggestions in stdin.

I saw somewhere here that you had used the Hunspell command directly so I tried that as well. This throws some errors as expected.

(.venv) vscode ➜ /workspaces/python-vale (main ✗) $ echo "This is quite obvisly a teached afair." | hunspell -d fixtures/en_GB
Hunspell 1.7.0
*
*
*
& obvisly 1 14: obviously
*
& teached 10 24: reached, teaches, teacher, leached, peached, beached, cacheted, cheated, teach, attached
& afair 5 32: afar, fair, affair, a fair, AFAIK

[jdkato]

You don't need to use Hunspell (it doesn't even need to be installed).

Here's what I get when I use your config:

$ vale -v
vale version v2.21.3
$ cat .vale.ini
StylesPath = styles

[*]
BasedOnStyles = Test, Vale
$ ls fixtures
en_GB.aff en_GB.dic
$ vale --config .vale.ini "This is quite obvisly a teached afair."
stdin.txt
 1:15  error  Did you really mean 'obvisly'?  Vale.Spelling 
 1:15  error  'obvisly' is misspelled         Test.Rule     
 1:25  error  Did you really mean 'teached'?  Vale.Spelling 
 1:25  error  'teached' is misspelled         Test.Rule     
 1:33  error  Did you really mean 'afair'?    Vale.Spelling 
 1:33  error  'afair' is misspelled           Test.Rule     

✖ 6 errors, 0 warnings and 0 suggestions in stdin.

where Test.Rule is

extends: spelling
message: "'%s' is misspelled"
# Relative to config file
dicpath: ./fixtures/
append: false
level: error
dictionaries:
  - en_GB

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Could you share the output of running vale --config '/workspaces/python-vale/.vale.ini' ls-config?

[ggravlingen]

I wasn't precise on Hunspell, I only installed it to make sure the dictionaries were working.

After implementing your exact settings, I finally got it to work and can work from there. Thank you for getting back to me and for helping me out!