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Re: Improving spelling correction prompt to generate aliases for future use

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From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Gwern Branwen <gwern0@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Improving spelling correction prompt to generate aliases for future use
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 19:04:58 +0100
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In-reply-to: Message from Gwern Branwen <gwern0@xxxxxxxxx> of "Sat, 20 Oct 2007 23:39:59 EDT." <20071021033959.GA4471@localhost>
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Gwern Branwen wrote:
> Looking into it, though, it is not very clear how to do this. I though
> one could perhaps modify SPROMPT to execute 'typo %R %r', but there
> doesn't seem to be any escape to run arbitrary shell commands.

You could "setopt promptsubst" and have typo output the prompt (as well as
whatever else it's doing) then set

SPROMPT='`typo`'

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Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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