On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 12:10:17AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > > On Jul 4, 2012, at 4:08 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > > > On 07/04/2012 15:01, Mike Meyer wrote: > >> On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:19:38 -0700 > >> Doug Barton <do...@freebsd.org> wrote: > >>> On 07/04/2012 11:51, Jason Hellenthal wrote: > >>>> What would be really nice here is a command wrapper hooked into the > >>>> shell so that when you type a command and it does not exist it presents > >>>> you with a question for suggestions to install somewhat like Fedora has > >>>> done. > >>> I would also like to see this feature, which is pretty much universal in > >>> linux at this point. It's very handy. > >> > >> I, on the other hand, count it as one of the many features of Linux > >> that make me use FreeBSD. > > > > First, I agree that being able to turn it off should be possible. But I > > can't help being curious ... why would you *not* want a feature that > > tells you what to install if you type a command that doesn't exist on > > the system? > > Because I find on Linux it often gets it wrong and winds up being useless > noise. Mostly, though, it is because I mistype commands more than I type > commands that should be there, but aren't.
It is even cooler than I thought initially. It punishes you for making typos:) Cool. I think this is very useful for newcomers. The only thing that is missing is a one-liner how to disable this feature next to instruction how to install a package containing the missing command. -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheelsystems.com FreeBSD committer http://www.FreeBSD.org Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! http://tupytaj.pl
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