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Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:16:50 +0000
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Subject: Re: [9fans] what features would you like in a shell?
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> it would be interesting to use something closer to regular expressions
> rather than standard shell globbing. �the challenge would be
> to avoid gratuitous breakage and yet allow the match operator
> to be much more powerful.

thanks a lot for the reply. i got my hand of the unix programming
environment by Kernighan and Pike. I don't think we have the
programming skills for implementing a regular expression engine, but
there was a simple solution that measured the difference between the
command the user entered and an existing command.

maybe we should include that one.

you think the idea of reloading a crashed program is not a good one?
for example, what if it's a web browser?