find nearby words to your primary selection area using levenshtein, then fuzzy filter if needed, and write the choice to the clipboard

near.fish

function near
    set selection (
        cat /usr/share/dict/american-english \
            | similar-sort -- (xclip -o) \
            # tiebreak=index to prefer LD sort order
            | fzf -i +m --tiebreak=index --preview "dict {}" --preview-window="right,80%,wrap,<60(wrap,up,45%)"
    )

    # only run xclip if something was selected (i.e. not if fzf was exited)
    if test "$status" -eq 0
        # using -loops 2 to wait until clipboard manager has grabbed
        # using -quiet puts xclip in foreground so we wait to exit
        echo "$selection" | xclip -r -sel clip -loops 2 -quiet
    end

    exit
end