Appendix D. Glob Patterns

jEdit uses glob patterns similar to those in MS-DOS and the various Unix shells to implement file name filters in the Open File and Save As dialog boxes. Glob patterns resemble regular expressions somewhat, but have a much simpler syntax. The following character sequences have special meaning within a glob pattern:

Character class expressions ([abc], etc) are supported in globs and behave exactly like regular expression character classes; see Appendix C for details.