11 Feb
2020
11 Feb
'20
9:06 p.m.
On 2/11/20 4:40 AM, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
Doug McIlroy <doug(a)cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
But this isn't *silent* correction. The shell tells you where
it's putting you when it does this, same as in a 'cd' that
happens via $CDPATH.
Admittedly, you have to be paying attention, but Unix has always
demanded that of its users.
The one change I might consider is to disable this feature if the shell
is executing a command list, so something like
cd /usr/bon && rm -f sh*
doesn't do something unexpected before a user has a chance to react.
Does the v9 shell do that?
Chet
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What i
like is the autocorrect feature in v8:
$ cd /usr/blot
/usr/blit
$ pwd
/usr/blit
Here I am, editor of the v8 manual and unaware of the feature.
We now know that silent correction is a terrible idea.