On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 09:37:58AM +0000, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 10:16:20AM +0100, Roman Rakus wrote:
> > probably you heard about this topic. It is invoked by ubuntu guys. See
> > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/command-not-found-magic
> > I would like to know, what do you think about it. It needs a small change
> > in bash.
> [...]
>
> A note about it. If ever it makes it to bash, maybe a good idea
> would be to call the handler command_not_found_handler instead
> of command_not_found_handle as it seems to make more sense (at
> least to me) and that's what zsh has chosen (for the same
> reason). See http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2007/msg00592.html
> So that one could use the same rc file for bash and zsh.
I'd second that. Here's a patch for bash-4.0-rc1:
--- config-top.h.orig 2009-01-12 13:41:45.000000000 -0900
+++ config-top.h 2009-01-12 13:54:46.000000000 -0900
@@ -96,5 +96,5 @@
/* This is used as the name of a shell function to call when a command
name is not found. If you want to name it something other than the
- default ("command_not_found_handle"), change it here. */
-/* #define NOTFOUND_HOOK "command_not_found_handle" */
+ default ("command_not_found_handler"), change it here. */
+/* #define NOTFOUND_HOOK "command_not_found_handler" */
--
Ken Irving, fn...@uaf.edu, 907-474-6152
Water and Environmental Research Center
Institute of Northern Engineering
University of Alaska, Fairbanks
