Remove previously typed words from suggestion list?
 

When i start typing my phone shows me what it thinks the word will be. How do i remove some of the previous words it remembers?! :confused:Thanks in advance!!

Re: Remove previously typed words from suggestion list?
 

anyone know?

Re: Remove previously typed words from suggestion list?
 

In previous Maemo versions, I think it was possible to tap-and-hold on a word completion suggestion in order to display a context menu that allowed it to be forgotten. I've always disabled word completion though, so I'm not certain.

In any case, that doesn't seem to work in Maemo 5.

The best I can tell you is the files that track and store word completion suggestions appear to be:

• /home/user/.osso/dictionaries/.personal.dictionary
• /home/user/.osso/dictionaries/.used.dictionary

Re: Remove previously typed words from suggestion list?
 

I tried to hold the stylus over the word completion thing when it came up but nothing came up. Can someone tell me how to access:
[*]/home/user/.osso/dictionaries/.personal.dictionary
[*]/home/user/.osso/dictionaries/.used.

Re: Remove previously typed words from suggestion list?
 

You'd need to launch "X Terminal" and enter:
cd .osso/dictionaries

Then, you'd see the files are there by typing:
ls -a

The .personal.dictionary is a binary file though. I haven't investigated its format, but it wouldn't be a simple matter to edit it.

The other file, .used.dictionary, is a text file, but I don't think editing it would help you toward your goal.

Re: Remove previously typed words from suggestion list?
 

i tried it but i dont really understand how to work it, is it like python? is there anyway to achieve my goal or probably not? i'll try calling Nokia tomorrow morning. thanks for the help.

Re: Remove previously typed words from suggestion list?
 

If someone can come up with a tidy way of doing this, i will email a lifetime supply of jaffacakes. Or failing that, a huge amount of thanks.

Could something be created?

Re: Remove previously typed words from suggestion list?
 

Also see thread http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=36986.

Re: Remove previously typed words from suggestion list?
 

Does anyone know where the hildon-input-method source is? I'm wondering if the binary file format for the .used.dictionary and .personal.dictionary files can be worked out.

Re: Remove previously typed words from suggestion list?
 

I haven't dug into the code to see what's there, but one or more of the following may help:

• Index of /projects/haf/trunk/hildon-input-method/src
• Index of /projects/haf/trunk/hildon-input-method-framework/src
• Index of /projects/haf/trunk/hildon-input-method-plugins-example/src

Re: Remove previously typed words from suggestion list?
 

Thanks. Shame about the stage.maemo.org certificate expiry (please vote for bug 5551). I couldn't find anything immediately helpful there. It looks like the word completion stuff might be in a separate module, which may or may not be open source. Anyone know?

Re: Remove previously typed words from suggestion list?
 

A bit of searching makes me believe the word completion stuff is in hildon-input-method-widgets, which I believe is closed source unless anyone knows differently, which is a shame.

Re: Remove previously typed words from suggestion list?
 

I had various smutty words in my prediction file, which could be embarassing for me. I found the file using "strings" etc, if you just delete it it gets created afresh next time you type an unusual word which is good.

so yeah to get rid of all the pr0ntastic / personal words in your user dictionary file, use th Xterm and copy-paste this:

rm /home/user/.osso/dictionaries/.personal.dictionary

you may also want to check / remove the other file, to check:

strings /home/user/.osso/dictionaries/.used.dictionary | less

I didn't delete this file it only had a few recent non smutty words in it for me.

You may want to turn off word completion while typing uncacheworthy words, I suppose that would stop them getting stored.

Re: Remove previously typed words from suggestion list?
 

Or install "Auto-Complete Editor" to easily flag all bad spellings to delete