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The ksh manual page is one of the few places that calls globbing
"file name generation". The mksh and zsh manuals use the same term.
But every other shell's manual calls it "pathname expansion": bash,
dash, yash, FreeBSD sh. So does ksh's built-in documentation (alias
--man, export --man, readonly --man, set --man, typeset --man).
What's more, the authoritative ksh reference, Bolsky & Korn's 1995
"The New Kornshell" book, also calls it "pathname expansion", and
so does the POSIX standard.

Similarly, "arithmetic substitution" should be called "arithmetic
expansion" per Bolsky & Korn as well as POSIX.

This commit has several other miscellaneous documentation tweaks as
well.
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@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ The options have the following defaults and meanings:
the job pid and $? is set to the job exit status at the
beginning of the trap.
BRACEPAT on C-shell type abc{d,e}f style file generation
BRACEPAT on Brace expansion. Expands abc{d,e}f to abcdf abcef.
This feature was inspired by the C shell.
CMDLIB_HDR "<cmdlist.h>"
The header in which you can provide a custom list of
@ -79,7 +80,7 @@ The options have the following defaults and meanings:
fixed-size arrays NAME[N1][N2]... are also supported.
GLOBCASEDET Adds the 'globcasedetect' shell option. When this shell
option is turned on, file name generation (globbing)
option is turned on, pathname expansion (globbing)
and file name listing and completion automatically become
case-insensitive on file systems where the difference
between upper- and lowercase is ignored for file names.
@ -95,8 +96,15 @@ The options have the following defaults and meanings:
MULTIBYTE on Multibyte character handling. Requires mblen() and
mbctowc().
NAMESPACE on Allows namespaces. This is experimental, incomplete
and undocumented.
NAMESPACE on Adds a 'namespace' reserved word that allows defining name
spaces. Variables and functions defined within a block like
namespace ExampleSpace { commandlist; }
all have their names automatically prefixed with
'.ExampleSpace.' when defining or using them, creating a
separate space of names unique to the block. Outside of
the namespace block, they can be accessed using
.ExampleSpace.function or ${.ExampleSpace.variable}.
Name spaces within name spaces are also supported.
NOECHOE off Disable the '-e' option to the 'echo' command,
unless SHOPT_ECHOPRINT is enabled.