Are there any editors or packages with auto-correct for LaTeX commands?

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When a LaTeX command is written incorrectly, the document does not compile and the workflow is interrupted. In most cases, this is due to a typo, such as writing \foornote{} instead of footnote{}.

Are there any editors that use an auto-correct for situations like this?

The algorithm for doing the auto-correct, I guess, would be similar to the auto-correct for spelling as found in MS Word, which changes things like neccessary to necessary on-the-fly without users even noticing.

@texenthusiast The list doesn't specify the feature I'm looking for, and researching each one would be a considerable task. (Note, at this point, I'm not sure the feature exists at all). — User 17670, Apr 24 '13 at 18:07
May be you are right, see syntax checking package \usepackage{syntonly} \syntaxonly — texenthusiast, Apr 24 '13 at 18:15
In vim, you can use :imap or IMAP(..) (the latter is part of vim-latex-suite) to do auto-correct on the fly (but you'll have to build the database of auto-correction yourself. — Aditya, Apr 24 '13 at 22:24

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

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TeXstudio (Sourceforge / tex.sx) doesn’t have autocorrect (built in, cf. Qrrbrbirlbel’s comment), but it marks unrecognized macros with a red background:

unrecognized macro highlighting
^{\foornote vs. \footnote}

In order for this to make sense, TeXstudio notices which packages you are using and automatically tries to determine which macros are defined by them, mostly sucessfully so (if it should fail, you could complement macros manually):

with lipsum loaded without lipsum loaded
^{lipsum loaded vs. lipsum not loaded}

However, when you’re using TeXstudio (or just about any editor with decent autocompletion, you’re not going to need this too often because \footnote will be suggested to you as an autocomplete option:

^{autocomplete suggestions for \foo}

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

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answered Apr 24 '13 at 18:19

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Similar features are available for auctex in emacs. – Andrew Swann Apr 24 '13 at 18:53
Yes, TeXstudio has Auto-Correct (“Macros”) but you have to feed it manually. – Qrrbrbirlbel Apr 24 '13 at 20:05
@Qrrbrbirlbel You mean you can program it to replace \foornote with \footnote? I guess that counts, yeah. I think MS Word’s replacement mechanism also relies on a hard-coded list of common typos. Why don’t you add an answer about TeXstudio’s macros? – doncherry Apr 24 '13 at 20:28

Are there any editors or packages with auto-correct for LaTeX commands?

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