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

From: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Date: Dec 18, 2016, 13:16 UTC
Message-ID: <5e1a3c4b-43b9-29f2-68fe-8149d9940123@gmx.net>
In-Reply-To: <1482063500.10858.1.camel@gmail.com>

Hi,

On 12/18/2016 01:18 PM, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote:

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> I have found the "Did you mean this?" feature of git as a very good
> feature. I thought it would be even better if it took a step toward by
> asking for a prompt when there was only one alternative to the command
> that was entered. 
> 
> E.g.
> 
>> unique@unique-pc:~$ git hepl
>> git: 'hepl' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
>>
>> Did you mean this?
>> 	help
>> [yes/No] : y
>> usage: git [--version] [--help] [-C <path>] [-c name=value]
>>            [--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path] [--man-path] [--info-
>> path]
>> ....
> 
> This would make it even better for the user as it would avoid having to
> correct the mistake long commands that had only a single error
> (considering history feature is enabled). 
> 
> Is this is a good idea ?

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]:
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Best
  Stephan