# fx — automated, selectable fix sources for f() `fx` automates the `[LEARN] ... Enter a fix:` prompt in `f()` by gathering candidate fixes from a directory of small, pluggable scripts and letting you pick one (or auto-picking) before it's piped into `f`'s stdin. **Zero changes to `../../src/f.sh`.** `f()`'s `read -r n` already doesn't care whether that line comes from a human or a program — `fx` just decides what to type there. ## Usage ```sh . ../../src/f.sh . fx.sh fx some-command --that --might --fail ``` Set `FX_AUTO=1` to skip the picker and take the top-ranked candidate automatically. Without it, `fx` uses `fzf` if installed, or a plain numbered prompt otherwise. ## Default sources (`sources.d/`, run in filename order) | File | What it offers | |---|---| | `10-known.sh` | Fixes already taught for a command that *starts* the same way, since `f()`'s own lookup only matches the exact string. | | `20-history.sh` | The closest-looking command you've actually run before, read from `$HISTFILE`. | | `30-selfdiag.sh` | Re-runs the command once, and if the tool's own error output suggests a corrected invocation (git's `--set-upstream` hint, etc.), emits a **function that re-derives the suggestion live on every future call** — not a frozen snapshot. This distinction matters: an earlier version of this source cached the literal suggested line and it silently broke on the second branch it saw (`git ls-remote` showed the second branch never got pushed). Re-diagnosing on every call is what makes one taught fix generalize correctly. | | `40-pathfuzzy.sh` | If the first word isn't a real command, offers a **function** (not an alias — aliases don't expand in non-interactive shells without `shopt -s expand_aliases`) wrapping the closest-spelled real command, using transposition-aware edit distance so `gti` scores closer to `git` than to unrelated same-length commands like `ftp`. | | `50-thefuck.sh` | Bridges to `thefuck --yes`, if installed, as one more opinion. Note `--yes` executes its own suggestion, so this candidate is often already-applied by the time you see it. | | `90-team-shared.sh` | Off by default (no-ops unless `FX_TEAM_URL` is set) — see below, this one *is* the extension example. | ## Adding a custom source Drop a new executable file into `sources.d/`. Nothing else to register. Contract: - invoked as `sourcefile "$CMD"` where `$CMD` is the whole failing command line - may read `$FX_OUTPUT` — captured stdout+stderr of one real attempt (empty if `FX_NO_PROBE` is set) - prints zero or more candidate fix lines to stdout, one per line - non-zero exit or no output = "no opinion," silently skipped - filename prefix (`NN-name`) sets consideration/display order — lower runs first `90-team-shared.sh` is a real, working example of this contract: it pulls a shared `p`-format corrections file from `$FX_TEAM_URL` and offers exact-key matches. It's a template, not a dependency — treat a URL you point it at the same way you'd treat an rc file you `source`: a match becomes `eval`'d code the moment you select it. ## Known cost `fx` runs the command once itself before consulting sources (so `30-selfdiag.sh` has real output to read). That's one extra execution beyond what plain `f()` does. Set `FX_NO_PROBE=1` to skip it for commands with side effects you don't want repeated — the output-aware source just has no opinion in that case, and the others still work.