the article http://lwn.net/Articles/136232/ says that fish shell can show misspelled options as errors.
it has a screenshot also where "--colour" is highlighted in red in "ls --colour" command. when I tried the same, it didn't work. so i asked the question.... - santhosh On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Cedric Auger <sedri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 2014-10-31 17:58 GMT+01:00 Santhosh T <santhosh.tek...@gmail.com>: > >> when i type "ls --unknownoption" >> >> i am expected "--unknownoption" to be shown in red. >> >> fish only showing wrong commands in red color, but not wrong options >> >> i already did run "fish_update_completions" >> >> I am using MAC >> >> thanks >> Santhosh >> >> >> > I first glance, I would say, that it is not a realistic feature. > How could you tell if a given option is a right or a wrong one? > > For the command, work is easy: just ask the file system is there is such > an executable program. > But there is no Unix command which tells given a program and options if > they are compatible. > Of course, like autocompletion, you could forbid some options (but that > would concern only very specific programs for which the set of "good" > options can be easily known). > Plus there should be some clever parsing, as for example "ls -- > --unknownoption" is a valid command (at least on the Ubuntu version I have). > That is because I can create a file named "--unknownoption". > > > -- > .../Sedrikov\... >
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