Re: "cdspell" enabled by default on interactive shell?

[Chet Ramey]

On 11/20/21 9:04 AM, Jin Xiang wrote:
> The Bash Reference Manual claims that "cdspell" is enabled by default in an
> interactive shell:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Interactive-Shell-Behavior
>
> Quote (item #20): "Simple spelling correction for directory arguments to
> the cd builtin is enabled by default (see the description of the cdspell option
> to the shopt builtin in The Shopt Builtin
> <https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#The-Shopt-Builtin>)."
>
> But this option is always off when I launch a new bash in interactive mode.
> (It's not turned off by any of my bash config files.) Can anybody tell me
> why? Thanks!

Thanks for the report. The "Interactive Shell" section is clearly wrong;
the description of `cdspell' and `shopt' are correct in that it is not
enabled by default.

Chet


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