Thefuck: Fuck fucks itself

Created on 7 Jun 2015 · 10Comments · Source: nvbn/thefuck

When misspelling fuck and trying to fuck it, fuck fucks itself continuously. I don't know if it's a bug or feature.

max@Gotthold ~$ guck                                                                                                            22:00:26
fish: Unknown command 'guck'
(127) max@Gotthold ~$ fuck                                                                                                          22:00:29
fuck
fuck
fuck
fuck
fuck
fuck
fuck
fuck
fuck
fuck
fuck
fuck
fuck
^CTraceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/thefuck", line 5, in <module>
    from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.10-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 34, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.10/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/platform.py", line 1383, in <module>
    r'([\w.+]+)\s*'
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.10/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/re.py", line 194, in compile
    return _compile(pattern, flags)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.10/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/re.py", line 249, in _compile
    p = sre_compile.compile(pattern, flags)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.10/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/sre_compile.py", line 576, in compile
    code = _code(p, flags)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.10/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/sre_compile.py", line 558, in _code
    _compile_info(code, p, flags)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.10/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/sre_compile.py", line 437, in _compile_info
    lo, hi = pattern.getwidth()
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.10/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/sre_parse.py", line 158, in getwidth
    for op, av in self.data:
KeyboardInterrupt

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maxried

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This might be the issue report of the year.

circlecrystal on 1 Aug 2015

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Another duplicate of #221. I'm almost happy with a reasonably good solution to this problem.

scorphus on 8 Jun 2015

This issue is fixed by https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck/commit/96fe1e77b3cfacb5e2bb8e8568a5a515f3870ebf and can be closed.

scorphus on 17 Jun 2015

I have the same problem on Mac OS X with zsh,I tried to install thefuck(version 1.46) from pip and brew,but both of them fuck themselves.Does the patch in 96fe1e7 included in version 1.46? @scorphus