Is there a way to tell Fish shell to correct common typos in commands with spaces?

Question

I'm fairly new to Fish, and I like it so far, but I'm annoyed that abbreviations can't have spaces. For example, when I type git statsu, which I do more often than the actual command of git status, I want it to replace the text with the correct command. I have tried adding the following to my config.fish file:

abbr "git statsu" "git status"

…which gives me:

abbr --add: Abbreviation 'git statsu' cannot have spaces in the word

Second try (alias with spaces not supported):

alias "git statsu"="git status"

- (line 1): function: Unexpected positional argument 'statsu'
function git statsu --wraps 'git status' --description 'alias git statsu=git status';  git status $argv; end
^
from sourcing file -
    called on line 61 of file /usr/share/fish/functions/alias.fish
in function 'alias' with arguments 'git\ statsu=git\ status'
    called on line 19 of file ~/.config/fish/config.fish
from sourcing file ~/.config/fish/config.fish
    called on line 1 of file -
in function 'config'

Similarly, I try:

alias "git\ statsu"="git\ status"

Which fails silently:

> git statsu
git: 'statsu' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.

The most similar command is
    status

And finally (abbreviations after first argument not expanded):

abbr statsu status

> git statsu
git: 'statsu' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.

The most similar command is
    status

Please offer alternative solutions; I am tired of constantly typing the wrong command and having to correct it manually.

Answer 1

Why don't you use git aliases instead. Here are a couple of mine:

$ cat ~/.gitconfig
...
[alias]
    co = checkout
    stat = status

---

Here's a fish thing you can do that's easy to expand with other common typos:

function git
    switch $argv[1]
        case statsu
            set argv[1] status
    end
    command git $argv
end