zsh Command Auto correction

Question

I've seen and read about zsh offering auto correction of a command input. Eg- if I type sl, it should ask me something like "did you mean ls?" But, in my zsh, this does not happen. It just gives an error. Is there a reason for this, some settings maybe? (And yes, I'm sure that I'm running zsh and not bash or something)

Answer 1

This is controlled by the CORRECT option, see zshoptions(1).

% zsh -f
dhcp196-230% setopt correct
dhcp196-230% sl
zsh: correct 'sl' to 'ls' [nyae]? y
...
dhcp196-230% setopt nocorrect
dhcp196-230% sl
zsh: command not found: sl
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