Stop typo correction suggestions

Nov 11, '01 09:48:10PM

Contributed by: Anonymous

Let's say you're typing a command, and you do a typo. The shell will offer you a correction ... for example, you type:

pinge
and it'll ask you:
OK? ping?
If you don't like that, these commands will stop it from suggesting typo corrections:
unset autocorrect
unset correct
You can put those in whatever appropriate .tcshrc file or such-like place you keep such things. BTW, use at your own caution ... I'm a total Unix newbie who swiped this off a Google search result, and I take NO responsibility for absolutely anything in the whole wide world. ;-)

[Editor's note: If you'd like to re-enable the typo corrections, simply use set autocorrect and set correct. You'll need to close and re-open a Terminal window for the changes to take effect. And I think these commands are generally safe to use :-)]

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