Compression error hints can make wrong suggestions #88
Description
Originally posted by @dcariotti in #84 (comment)
Problem
After running this:
ouch c 1.txt 2.txt archive.lz.tarOuch shows an error message:
[ERROR] Cannot compress to 'archive.lz.tar'.
- You are trying to compress multiple files.
- The compression format '.lz' cannot receive multiple files.
- The only supported formats that archive files into an archive are .tar and .zip.
hint: Try inserting '.tar' or '.zip' before '.lz'.
hint: From: archive.lz.tar
hint: To : archive.tar.lz.tarHowever, if you follow what the hints suggest and use archive.tar.lz.tar:
ouch c 1.txt 2.txt archive.tar.lz.tarYou will receive the following error:
- Found the format '.tar' in an incorrect position.
- '.tar' can only be used at the start of the file extension.
hint: If you wish to compress multiple files, start the extension with '.tar'.
hint: Otherwise, remove '.tar' from 'archive.tar.lz.tar'.Our hints are not ready for this specific errors.
Maybe it probably should just have said "you might want to move .tar to the start".
There are actually a lot of ways we can rethink those error messages to fix this issue, I'm not currently sure what's the best one.