[Gllug] a more intelligent shell

[Mike Brodbelt]

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.

I used tcsh briefly a long time ago as it has a feature much like he
describes. In practice though, that fact it's not psychic means it
causes more grief than it avoids.

Mike

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