From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Zsh Workers <zsh-workers@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: Don't suggest completion functions when 'correcting' on non-existant commands
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:48:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <090102184800.ZM26274@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090102225432.GI4052@fsst.voodoo.lan>
On Jan 2, 11:54pm, Frank Terbeck wrote:
}
} > On Dec 31, 7:12pm, Frank Terbeck wrote:
} > }
} > } <http://bewatermyfriend.org/posts/2007/12-26.11-50-38-tooltime.html>
} >
} > That's not really a solution; it just replaces the correction prompt
} > with a different prompt.
}
} Well, to me it's not really another prompt, because you're not
} actually prompted for anything.
It nevertheless stops whatever is going on and makes you hit enter, which
is not that much better than answering "N" to a request to correct the
command name.
} E.g.: If it's due to a not-yet-installed piece of software you can
} push-input the current cmdline, aptitude-install (or whatever way your
} OS does it) and then just hit enter to have the pushed command
} executed - with the missing program installed.
}
} > It might be interesting for other reasons.
}
} What would those reasons be? ...maybe you see use-cases I didn't see,
} yet. :-)
Well, on Ubuntu under bash when a command is not found you get told what
to do to install it (e.g. what package to apt-get install). This could
be the basis for something like that for zsh.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-03 2:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-31 17:48 Richard Hartmann
2008-12-31 18:12 ` Frank Terbeck
2008-12-31 18:46 ` Bart Schaefer
2009-01-02 22:54 ` Frank Terbeck
2009-01-03 2:48 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2009-01-03 11:42 ` Frank Terbeck
2009-01-21 17:08 ` Richard Hartmann
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