[Gllug] a more intelligent shell

[Ryland, Peter]

On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 23:18 +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
>         On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 10:35:41PM +0100, Adrian wrote:
>         > > 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.
>         
>         Can you guarantee you'll exclude all the dangerous ones?  Bet
>         you can't.

This theoretical shell could always intercept all syscalls and if it was
a little uncertain of the spelling corrections it made, it could stop a
process causing any changes to anything at that level.

But tab completion just seems like a more reliable solution.  Kinda like
how I would use M-. rather than !$.  It just seems safer.

Pete
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