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. > > greetings, martin. > -- > cooperative communication with sTeam - caudium, pike, roxen and unix > offering: programming, training and administration - anywhere in the world > -- > pike programmer travelling and working in europe open-steam.org > unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at > administrator (caudium|gotpike).org is.schon.org > Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/ > -- Axel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
