Quickly Fix A Misspelled Word
In Fix The Spelling Of A Word, I describe how to use Vim's built-in spell files to fix a misspelling. After turning on :spell and navigating the cursor to a typo, you can open a prompt with dozens of spelling replacement options.
You generally don't need dozens of options to choose from. If you were remotely close in the spelling of the word, you will likely end up choosing the first option.
Instead of the multi-step open and choose, you can tell Vim to replace the misspelled word with its top suggestion.
Navigate the cursor over the misspelled word and hit:
This skips the prompt and tells Vim to grab the first spelling suggestion.
If it's not what you were looking for, you can always hit u (to undo) and then z= to open the full prompt.
See :h z= for more details.
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