11 Feb
2020
11 Feb
'20
3:40 p.m.
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.
Note that I am not arguing with the idea that silent correction
is bad; I'm merely pointing out that this is not an instance of that.
Thanks,
Arnold
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.