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:
? matches any one character
* matches any number of characters
{a,b,c} matches any one of a, b or c
Character class expressions ([abc], etc) are supported in globs and behave exactly like regular expression character classes; see Appendix C for details.