On 9/12/06, Martin Bähr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 05:37:24PM +0200, Axel Liljencrantz wrote: > > 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. > > ok, well, on my machine it is aparently fast enough, so maybe this could > be optional. i do see the problem with this taking a long time though.
Not everybode is as patient as you are. :) There where complaints. > > could this be done in the background somehow? > especially now that the pager is reading from stdin, it could display > the first screenful of descriptions while more is generated, that way it > should be fast enough even on the slowest machines. Unfortunatly, the structure of the completions is that they are calculated all at once. That's kind of hard to change. Consider, for example, the fact that the basic Unix directory reading functions will not give you the contents of the current directory in alphabetical order. > > 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
