Today (Saturday) appears to be a slow day on the technical Internet or perhaps everyone is hiding out from the AI apocalypse. Whatever the reason, I can’t find anything to write about that’s up to the refined standards of Irreal readers.
I offer, therefore, this short post on a niche problem that most of you probably don’t have but that may be useful to those that do. If you’re an Eshell user you may or may not know that if you repeatedly try to run a command that doesn’t exist, Eshell will ask you if you want to set an alias. Over at the Emacs subreddit, Both_Confidence_4147 complains about this and asks how to stop it.
Presumably, Eshell thinks you’re repeatedly mistyping the command name—as in the old time common error or typing “moer” for “more” and similar errors—and is offering you a way to avoid the error going forward. Eshell will ask you for an alias after 3 failed commands but, of course, this is configurable. You can also arrange to disable the prompt completely as explained in this comment to Both_Confidence_4147’s post.
Again, this is a niche problem unless, of course, you’re the own who’s experiencing it. If you are, now you know how to fix things.