Ming-ting Yao Wei <mwei@lxde.org> writes: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name : thefuck > Version : 1.31 > Upstream Author : Vladimir Iakovlev <nvbn.rm@gmail.com> > * URL : http://github.com/nvbn/thefuck > * License : MIT > Programming Lang: Python > Description : Correct your misbehavior on the command line > > The package tries to fix your command line error, such as missing sudo > or typo. > > Also wondering if the name is too offensive to upload. I imagine the idea behind this program made for a lively conversation in the pub when it was dreamt up. I'd question it's actual usefulness though. It seems to me that the habit of using such a thing is likely to be quite dangerous. I'd certainly not want it lurking in my command history, since I fairly often use Ctrl-O to replay sequences of commands, and who knows what it's going to do if one runs the same sequence of commands, but the preceding command fails to fail in the same manner. Also, typing this seems barely quicker than fixing the command line. For several of the cases it deals with people would be much better off defining aliases for their most prevalent typos. I don't think I'd want to allow anyone that used this technique anywhere near any of the machines I care about, so I doubt it's a service to our users to encourage them to use it on their own machines. The name is probably the final nail in the coffin -- if it was an astoundingly useful thing, which demanded the name for some reason, then it might be arguable that we should accept it. As it is, it seems that it's an unnecessary tool, with a puerile name (which would be better named something that was designed to be quickly typed e.g. "xcv" -- I'm sure there's one of them that could be backronymed to fit), for people that have not yet discovered zsh. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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