"Did you mean ..." when typing wrong package name

[mpscholten]

Currently when typing the wrong package name, e.g. nix-env -i cabal instead of nix-env -i cabal-install you will get error: selector ‘cabal’ matches no derivations. That's not really helpful.

Maybe nix-env could check for possible package with a similar name, and then output something like error: selector ‘cabal’ matches no derivations. Did you mean ‘cabal-install‘?

[copumpkin]

Let's do this on attribute paths too. Attribute names are so last year :)
On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 09:15 Marc Scholten notifications@github.com
wrote:

Currently when typing the wrong package name, e.g. nix-env -i cabal
instead of nix-env -i cabal-install you will get error: selector ‘cabal’
matches no derivations. That's not really helpful.

Maybe nix-env could check for possible package with a similar name, and
then output something like error: selector ‘cabal’ matches no
derivations. Did you mean ‘cabal-install‘?

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