Intro

This post is useful if you want to add custom dictionaries to your Sublime Text spell checking.

Remove default dictionary

rm "/opt/sublime_text/Packages/Language - English.sublime-package"

Add dictionaries from the system (from hunspell)

  1. create a Sublime Text dictionary folder

     mkdir ~/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/Dictionaries/

  2. add hunspell’s dictionary to this folder

     # Portuguese
 ln -s /usr/share/hunspell/pt_PT.dic ~/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/Dictionaries/pt_PT.dic
 ln -s /usr/share/hunspell/pt_PT.aff ~/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/Dictionaries/pt_PT.aff
 # English
 ln -s /usr/share/hunspell/en_GB.dic ~/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/Dictionaries/en_GB.dic
 ln -s /usr/share/hunspell/en_GB.aff ~/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/Dictionaries/en_GB.aff

  3. add a predefined dictionary to Sublime. Go to Preferences > Settings and add the line

     "dictionary": "Packages/Dictionaries/pt_PT.dic",

Done!

Now, all the above dictionaries are in Sublime’s Spell Checker (View > Dictionary).