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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: suggest solutions for "rm *"
Message-ID: <6737@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 25-Nov-87 21:25:19 EST
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.6737
Posted: Wed Nov 25 21:25:19 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 29-Nov-87 11:48:14 EST
References: <5715@j.cc.purdue.edu> <911@mcgill-vision.UUCP> <791@russell.STANFORD.EDU>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) )
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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Keywords: human factors, interfaces, shells, DWIM

In article <791@russell.STANFORD.EDU> gandalf@russell.stanford.edu (Juergen Wagner) writes:
>... I am thinking
>of an ish ("intelligent shell") doing filename completion based on the
>search path, spelling correction on file/directory names, allow to edit
>previously typed-in lines, redo commands in a simpler fashion than csh,
>and other fancy things.

The BRL SVR2 Bourne shell is among those that do these things.
(Except for the spelling corrector; I considered it but I don't
think they do a good enough job, especially considering how easy
it now is to edit previous commands and resubmit them.)