> I suppose I should finally clear this up: The autocorrect functionality I originally described here was a feature of the first Linux systems I ever used, so I assumed it was how every Linux system worked by default. Since then I've come to understand that it's a completely optional extra doodad.
What systems did this? I've never encountered one that I can recall.
ktm5j 22 minutes ago [-]
I'm on my phone so I'm too lazy to dig for this, but I'm pretty sure they're talking about the bit of shell script that gets run if you type a command that isn't found in PATH.
Fedora and Debian will both dive straight into searching apt/dnf for a matching package and ask "do you want to install this?"
I imagine you could create a hook that gets run for any command failure, but again I'm on my phone so not sure.
VorpalWay 3 minutes ago [-]
This is generally called a command-not-found handler and are a feature of all the major shells (though the exact details differ, the general idea is to define a function with a specific reserved name), and most majors distros have ones that can be installed, even if they aren't by default.
I thought Ubuntu did that, but not Debian. Still, that's very different than what the author mentioned
ktm5j 10 minutes ago [-]
Oh you might be right about Ubuntu vs Debian.. but I'm right about everything else I said. I went and looked at the source code.
iguessthislldo 23 minutes ago [-]
Zsh can suggest the corrections to commands and filename. I'm not sure if that's what they're talking about, but zsh has been around for awhile.
dijit 22 minutes ago [-]
Anything that ships with a default zsh shell, which is a surprising number of distros actually.
ninth_ant 16 minutes ago [-]
There are some bash options like cdspell or dirspell that are likely what the blog author is referring to.
Either that or they were using zsh with autocorrect preinstalled or had somehow rigged up the thefuck to execute and run on any error somehow? Either way seems like a terrible default.
jmclnx 28 minutes ago [-]
I remember another distro from the 90s similar to this, it was created because the maintainer thought too many Windows people where influencing Linux.
I forgot what it did, but I think it wiped your system out too.
gzread 4 minutes ago [-]
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sillywabbit 18 minutes ago [-]
The name seems a little insensitive.
mikenew 10 minutes ago [-]
The side effect of trying to enforce this kind of sensitivity is that you make certain things taboo to talk about. And this is a good example of something that should be easy for someone to talk or even joke about because it makes dipping into that conversation much easier.
sillywabbit 3 minutes ago [-]
How about Rogue-like Linux?
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What systems did this? I've never encountered one that I can recall.
Fedora and Debian will both dive straight into searching apt/dnf for a matching package and ask "do you want to install this?"
I imagine you could create a hook that gets run for any command failure, but again I'm on my phone so not sure.
I wrote my own (much faster) such handler for Arch Linux. I even wrote a blog post about the design: https://vorpal.se/posts/2025/mar/25/filkoll-the-fastest-comm...
Either that or they were using zsh with autocorrect preinstalled or had somehow rigged up the thefuck to execute and run on any error somehow? Either way seems like a terrible default.
I forgot what it did, but I think it wiped your system out too.