Please help notorious "space"-mistyper

Please help notorious "space"-mistyper

[Jens Schleusener]

Hi,

I like to use zsh and the command line and change often the working
directory. But unfortunately nearly each second time I type (too fast)

 cddirectory

instead of

 cd directory

That is time consuming and nerve-racking.

Can the power of zsh help me? For e.g. checking if the input line starts
with the string "cd" with a following no-space character and inserting
a space if the first word (starting with "cd") isn't a valid command.

Sorry, I am not a zsh-expert and concede that I haven't read all available 
zsh documentation :-( 

Greetings

Jens

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Re: Please help notorious "space"-mistyper

[Bart Schaefer]

On Nov 14,  2:52pm, Jens Schleusener wrote:
} Subject: Please help notorious "space"-mistyper
}
} [...]  unfortunately nearly each second time I type (too fast)
} 
}  cddirectory
} 
} instead of
} 
}  cd directory
} 
} Can the power of zsh help me?

If you use

	setopt autocd

then you can leave off the "cd" entirely and just type

	directory

You could also try

	bindkey -s 'cd' '^Vcd '

but then you may find yourself needing to erase an extra space in other
unexpected places, like in the middle of the word "anecdote" (not that
you're ever particularly likely to type "anecdote" in the shell).

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Bart Schaefer                                 Brass Lantern Enterprises
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Re: Please help notorious "space"-mistyper

[Stefan Troeger]

Hi,

On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 14:52 +0100, Jens Schleusener wrote:

> I like to use zsh and the command line and change often the working
> directory. But unfortunately nearly each second time I type (too fast)
> 
>  cddirectory
> 
> instead of
> 
>  cd directory
> 
> That is time consuming and nerve-racking.

Try

function my-accept-line()
{
    if ! whence $BUFFER >/dev/null && [[ $BUFFER == cd* ]] && [[ -d ${BUFFER#cd} ]]; then
            BUFFER=${BUFFER/#cd/cd }
    fi
    zle accept-line
}
zle -N my-accept-line
bindkey "^m" my-accept-line

Ciao,
	Stefan