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  From: Andrew Burrow <alburrow@cs.adelaide.edu.au>
  To  : Russell, Richard (DEH) <rrussell@deh.sa.gov.au>
  Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 09:23:12 +1030

Re: spell checking shells...

RE: spoell checking in bash.

> > Does it do spell checking?
>
> Speaking of spell checking... this is weird behaviour in BASH:
> 

bash 2 man page:

              cdspell If set, minor errors in the spelling  of  a
                      directory component in a cd command will be
                      corrected.   The  errors  checked  for  are
                      transposed characters, a missing character,
                      tion  is  found, the corrected file name is
                      printed, and the  command  proceeds.   This
                      option  is only used by interactive shells.
                      and one character too many.  If  a  correc


There is a huge load of such junk in bash 2.  Sometime ago someone on
this list sent a large configuration file for bash 2 which would
enable it to do completion on just about every syntactically
recognisable argument type!



Cheers,


Andrew

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