> it's trying to be "smart"

DWIM ("Do What I Mean") is another example of how somme people fundamentally se computers as "magic". Trying to guess your intention from a few typed words was a terrible way to handle typos and spelling errors when Warren Teitelman tried it at Xerox PARC[1] over 50 years ago, and it's still a terrible idea for the same reasons.

From[2]:

> In one notorious incident, Warren added a DWIM feature to the command interpreter used at Xerox PARC. One day another hacker there typed

    delete *$

> to free up some disk space. (The editor there named backup files by appending $ to the original file name, so he was trying to delete any backup files left over from old editing sessions.) It happened that there weren't any editor backup files, so DWIM helpfully reported

    *$ not found, assuming you meant 'delete *'

> [...] The disgruntled victim later said he had been sorely tempted to go to Warren's office, tie Warren down in his chair in front of his workstation, and then type 'delete *$' twice.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWIM

[2] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/D/DWIM.html