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I'd like to change this behavior:

❯ les file.txt zsh: correct 'les' to 'ls' [nyae]?

To this:

❯ les file.txt zsh: correct 'les' to 'less' [nyae]?

What's the simplest way to do this? I'm looking to retain the autocorrection but revise it a bit, so alias les=less is not the kind of solution I seek.

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  • You will likely have to write your own function to achieve this... I doubt that the "ROI" for writing such a function is worth the effort. Commented Dec 30, 2023 at 12:01
  • I think your question has a typo in the second block: do you mean that you want zsh to correct 'les' to 'less'? Both blocks read the same at present. Commented Dec 30, 2023 at 22:09
  • Yup, corrected. Thanks! Commented Dec 31, 2023 at 17:28

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You can set

CORRECT_IGNORE=ls

And then, auto-correct will never offer ls as a correction (even for sl for instance).

I find that if I do that, it now offers lex as a correction for les. Then I need CORRECT_IGNORE='(ls|lex)' in order to be offered less when entering les.

Other than that (and disabling it altogether with set +o correct), I'm not aware of any other way to tune the auto-corrector.

If you find yourself typing les in place of less often, you can always add a alias les=less.

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