Re: Usability of terminals [Re: [Usability] Running gnome-terminal as a desktop background]

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Dan Winship wrote:

> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 10:16:41 -0400
> From: Dan Winship <danw novell com>
> To: Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>
> Cc: usability gnome org
> Subject: Re: Usability of terminals [Re: [Usability] Running
>     gnome-terminal as a desktop background]
>
> Alan Horkan wrote:
> > How come Gnome terminal doesn't have that feature warning you if you
> > mispell a command?  Played aroudn with a Mac and as terminals go I thought
> > it was pretty impressive way to improve usability.
>
> That's not a terminal feature, it's a shell feature. tcsh behaves that
> way by default.

I should have mentioned my suspicion it might be another shell but I
thought the Mac used bash (but maybe it was just tcsh) and whatever
version of tcsh I'm using right now doesn't include the functionality by
default.  (I guess I should ask the local admin.)

> I don't know if bash can be made to do it. Presumably zsh can, because
> zsh can do anything.

Either way turing the functionality on makes Apple look good and other
distributions might consider doing something similar (hint, hint).

Thanks for your comments.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

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