[Gllug] a more intelligent shell

[SteveC]

Like probably most people who came to linux from windows rather than
some other unix I've only ever really used bash. I can remember a couple
of occasions where people have muttered to me that they hate bash in
much the way I mutter that I hate IE when I have to use it.

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.

Perhaps something like auto-complete in a browser address (not just tab
completion but showing stuff too) bar but more intelligent so it knows
something about command line options and can highlight mistakes like
knowing quotes should be closed or certain options only take numeric or
string arguments.

Is there stuff like this out there? Was it all fixed in 1982 or
something?

have fun,

SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/
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