NoFAQ – A tool that corrects your console commands

Re:NoFAQ – A tool that corrects your console commands by 0xmohit on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @12:35PM (#12437243)

Not sure how well it works:

- Suggested `ls` for `sl` despite the fact that the latter [0] is a wonderful utility.

- `chomd` didn't yield any suggestion. Neither did `fskc`.

A similar utility that actually helps is thefuck [1].

[0] https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl

[1] https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck

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Re:NoFAQ – A tool that corrects your console commands by amyjess on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @02:17PM (#12438038)

Oddly enough, both of the points you bring up are handled perfectly by zsh's built-in correction. zsh will only suggest 'ls' for 'sl' if 'sl' isn't installed, and it'll catch 'fksc' and 'chomd'.

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Re:NoFAQ – A tool that corrects your console commands by kazinator on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @02:23PM (#12438097)

How well it works is: exactly to the extent that the crowd-sourced data is accurate. No more and no less.

It is not reasonable to suggest "ls" for "sl". If we regard this as typo correction, we have to consider that no letter in the command is in the correct position.

For typo correction to be plausible, it has to affect only some reasonable fraction of the command. The command has to be fairly long and the edit required to correct it has to be fairly small. E.g. showmnt -> showmount.

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