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nvbn / thefuck

Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.
MIT License
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Change the utility name #1339

Open eyalroz opened 2 years ago

eyalroz commented 2 years ago

I know this isn't the first suggestion to change the name. However, it's a bit different:

My reasons for suggesting a change are:

  1. It is difficult to convince other people, especially sysadmins and managers, to install a tool named "thefuck" or "fuck". I would install it myself, but organizationally, you need lots of people to "buy in" to this particular use of profanity, and that's just unlikely to happen in most scenarios I can think of.
  2. In many contexts, it sounds like it has to do with pornography. Which, again, is fine by me, but if I offer people a link for "Installing the fuck utility", that may end badly.
  3. It's not obviously relevant enough as the name. I suppose the idea is that if you typed something wrong, you might then want to curse, "oh fuck, that's not what I meant"; but most people aren't both native English speakers and have that as their favorite curse-word. I'm not even sure that's why the name was chosen.

Anyway, I would suggest something like "whoops" or "rephrase" or "do-over" or "whatimeant", or whatever.

PS - The suggestion of #401 (just "f") is much too short.

ricardo-rp commented 2 years ago

We should just rename the package to bob_saget

davidldennison commented 2 years ago

How about....no.

rakshith-ravi commented 1 year ago

How about....no.

Goddamn that's by far the most sound argument I've ever heard. I'm convinced

TheFern2 commented 1 year ago

Here's a great idea, fork and change name then point your buddies to it. Another great idea if they're so offended by it, make your own from scratch. The beauty of oss. 🍻

eyalroz commented 1 year ago

@TheFern2 :

  1. That won't work - a one-person fork is not something to rely on.
  2. It's not buddies, it's managers who are not buddy-ish and will frown upon the utility given then name.
  3. "If they're so offended" - you're saying that as though you don't know that many people would not be willing to consider a piece of software seriously when it has this name. But, you do. You can reject this bug saying that it's better to keep the "edgy" name and give up on a large segment of potential users, but if that's what you're saying, don't hide behind empty rhetoric.
Explosion-Scratch commented 1 year ago

https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck/assets/61319150/cb8b816d-b3b1-4491-be14-57a64121ea28

eyalroz commented 1 year ago

wtflip.mp4

I gotta say it... really like this guy's pink socks.

ajfarkas commented 8 months ago

I'll second this: for people who are doing government work, it's going to be very difficult to get this approved. Good luck telling a government to fix their sense of humor.

I've been using this a long time, and it's a great tool. I've been aliasing it for private sector jobs, but even that has caused some uncomfortable conversations at times. I'm with you, my personal opinion is that while words have power, I don't think this one is particularly magical or offensive. The problem is that I have to work with other people, and I like to consider that they have different viewpoints and sensibilities.