Better error messages for command not found (was Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

Jonathan Anderson jonathan.robert.anderson at gmail.com
Thu Jul 5 17:43:22 UTC 2012


On 5 Jul 2012, at 18:21, Mike Meyer wrote:
>> The command line shouldn't have to be a scary place for new users.
> 
> Nor should it be an annoying place for old users. New users are
> important. But old users are the ones who make contributions.

No argument there. :)

I do like the idea (Garrett's, maybe?) of providing such a tool, leaving it off by default, making it very easy to turn on ("if you run this command, the shell will be friendlier to you") and letting the PC-BSD folks turn it on by default for their users.


Jon
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