On 9/12/06, Martin Bähr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 04:09:36PM +0200, Axel Liljencrantz wrote:
> > If you aren't seeing any description even for commands that do have
> > whatis-information, then this is a bug somewhere in the fish system.
> > What is the output of e.g. '__fish_describe_command r'?
>
> lots of descriptive output.
>
> ah, i see what's happening here:
> compare:
> > ra<tab>
> race                                             (Executable, 569kB)
> radeontool                                       (Executable, 9.4kB)
> ramsize  (Query/set image root device, RAM disk size, or video mode)
> random                                      (Generate random number)
> ranlib                                  (Generate index to archive.)
> rarp                              (Manipulate the system RARP table)
> rasttopnm          (Convert a Sun rasterfile into a portable anymap)
> raw                              (Bind a Linux raw character device)
> rawtopgm       (Convert raw grayscale bytes into a portable graymap)
> rawtoppm              (Convert raw RGB bytes into a portable pixmap)
>
> with:
> > r<tab>
> race                                (Executable, 569kB)
> radeontool                          (Executable, 9.4kB)
> ramsize                        (Executable link, 7.3kB)
> random                         (Generate random number)
> ranlib                               (Executable, 42kB)
> rarp                                 (Executable, 19kB)
> rasttopnm                           (Executable, 6.8kB)
> raw                                 (Executable, 5.2kB)
> rawtopgm                            (Executable, 6.7kB)
> rawtoppm                            (Executable, 6.2kB)
> ...
>
> something obscure going on there...
> upgrading this from wishlist to bug :-)

Ah, of course. This happens because there are so many matches on a
single character completion that generating their descriptions will
take a noticable amount of time on old systems with a slow apropos
implementations.

>
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-- 
Axel

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