Re: You said the J word

[Scott Schwartz <schwartz@groucho.cs.psu.edu>]

| suggestions, folks?  a globber that uses grep(1) expressions rather than  
| shell globbing?  dwimming/spelling correction in the globber?  is this useful
| enough that we should drop everything and add a globber hook now?

I don't think so.  For now, the traditional scheme is ok.  

The thing that I'd be most interested in is a general completion
facility.  That pretty much has to be in the shell, unless you come up
with a really slick protocol for external programs to communicate
with.   Even in the shell, you want an incremental parser, so you can
try and grok the text the user typed, then do the completion, and then
back out if they decide to erase it.