Re: Suggestion for the "Did you mean this?" feature

From: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 18, 2016, 13:26 UTC
Message-ID: <1482067588.13943.4.camel@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <5e1a3c4b-43b9-29f2-68fe-8149d9940123@gmx.net>

On Sun, 2016-12-18 at 14:16 +0100, Stephan Beyer wrote:

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> I cannot tell if this is a good idea (or why it would be a bad idea)
> but
> why do you restrict your suggestion to the case when there is only
> one
> alternative?
> 
> Why not also something like:
> 
> ---
> $ git sta
> git: 'sta' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
> 
> Did you mean one of these?
> 	[1] status
> 	[2] stage
> 	[3] stash
> You can choose or quit [1,2,3,q]:

That would be fine too. Just thought it would be a good start to start with a simple case. Also, I wasn't sure if there were any drawback's that I was missing. I guess if it was implemented it wouldn't be difficult to extend it further.

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Regards,
Kaartic