"Did you mean ...?" suggestions for misspelled commands about rebar3

[garazdawi]

I've long though we should have Jaro/Damerau-Levenstein in the string module in Erlang. So a PR there would be appriciated :)

[paulo-ferraz-oliveira]

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In erlang_ls' els_utils.erl you'll already find references (in Erlang) to both mentioned distance algo.s: Jaro and Damerau-Levenshtein. Maybe worth a look (?)

Fwiw, I'd very much like to see this in rebar3.

[ferd]

Yeah I don't have any opposition to that. The State contains a list of all live providers, and you can see them being searched in rebar_core. Be aware that you can also get commands such as rebar3 namespace cmd and that either the namespace or the command can be misspelled, but even just doing the command would be an improvement.

See

rebar3/apps/rebar/src/rebar_core.erl

Lines 97 to 107 in a16f41a

	case CommandProvider of
	not_found when Command =/= do ->
	case Namespace of
	default ->
	{error, io_lib:format("Command ~ts not found", [atom_to_list(Command)])};
	_ ->
	{error, io_lib:format("Command ~ts not found in namespace ~ts",
	[atom_to_list(Command), atom_to_list(Namespace)])}
	end;
	not_found when Command =:= do, Namespace =/= default ->
	do([{default, do} | TargetProviders], State);

for the specific bit where it complains of things not being found.

[garazdawi]

I've long though we should have Jaro/Damerau-Levenstein in the string module in Erlang. So a PR there would be appriciated :)

Seems like I triggered one of my collegues at Erlang/OTP team, so we will soon see a PR for this in the Erlang/OTP repo.

[garazdawi]

Ah, I had actually already started on a PR to Erlang/OTP. I will submit what I have upstream and they can take it over or supersede it if they'd like :)

Thats what you get when you use gossip as coordination protocol :) Always good to have more implementation to take inspiration from!

[the-mikedavis]

Ah, I had actually already started on a PR to Erlang/OTP. I will submit what I have upstream and they can take it over or supersede it if they'd like :)

[ferd]

If we do depend on the Erlang/OTP module, we'll need to do a dynamic check to avoid failing when running on older releases. It's rather straightforward, just something we need to make an exception for.