[Gllug] a more intelligent shell

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 22:15 +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 01:03:59PM +0100, SteveC wrote:
> > 
> > Just now I type 'grepp' rather than 'grep' and got the familiar command
> > not found message. This is frustrating and it'd be nice if it knew that
> > I'd made a typo. This is fraught with UI problems as I don't want it to
> > ask me really, and I dont want it to confuse ls with rm, say.
> 
> And there lies your problem;  you want it to correct your mistakes
> without any interaction but you don't want it to get it wrong, which
> would require it to be psychic.


Err... no. It's fairly easy to specify some commands are not be
"reinterpreted" because they might damage the system. Cannot see how you
can do that with grep though.

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