Find NAME pattern

[JosDuchIt]

I am working on a gui (in Gui4Cli) for Find
Some questions:

1) It seems that pattern matching with Find is different than with list command

list a#? will list all filenames starting with a
find a#? lists all files having an "a " in their name (python like)
What is the character indicating the begin of the name (^ caret in python, does not work)

Are there other differences (character indicating end of string) ?

2) i did read LFORMAT is only for date and time variations; it would be more interesting to have the 'list' LFormat possibilities too. (say LFORMATD & LFORMATG) any chance?

3) what are tthe keywords WITHIN and BETWEEN for? how can they be used?

[xenic]

@JosDuchIt
#?a#? seems to work for finding all filenames containing an a. My beef with find is that it doesn't deal with the "~" negation character correctly (but neither does findmore). For example "list ~(#?-#?)" will list all files that don't contain a hyphen ( - ) but Find just list all the files when the same pattern is used. It sure would be nice if all the system commands and utilities would treat wildard patterns in the same way.
Since you are creating a gui for find, I should ask if you are aware that Find already has a builtin gui??