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Re: Package auto-suggestion under Debian/Ubuntu ?

Thanks for the heads up Frank !

Copying the one from /etc/bash.bashrc an adapting the function name works
perfectly (ie http://gist.github.com/506405 for the lazy)

Regards,
Juliien

2010/8/3 Frank Terbeck <ft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Julien Nicoulaud wrote:
> > One small thing I like with Bash is that auto-suggests packages when you
> try
> > to use an unknown command, like this:
> >
> >  $ eclipse
> >
> > The program 'eclipse' is currently not installed.  You can install it by
> >> typing:
> >
> > sudo apt-get install eclipse-platform
> >
> >
> > In Zsh, I just get:
> >
> > % eclipse
> >
> > zsh: command not found: eclipse
>
> Ubuntu's global bashrc probably uses the command-not-found program
> provided by the command-not-found package. It uses bash's
> command_not_found_handle() function. See `/etc/bash.bashrc' for details.
>
> Zsh has a similar facility, which is the command_not_found_handler()
> function. See
>
>    % man zshmisc | less -p "COMMAND EXECUTION"
>
> for details.
>
> Regards, Frank
>
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