On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 12:58:10AM +0200, Axel Liljencrantz wrote:
> > could this be done in the background somehow?
> 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.

but the direcory order problem you have anyways, so that can't really be
the issue.

i tried to look at the source in complete.c in complete_cmd_desc()

you are running __fish_describe_command with the completion token, and
then you turn that into a hashmap and map descriptions to your
previously built commandlist.

that way you of course need to wait for __fish_describe_command before
being able to display any completions.

__fish_describe_command returns its output in alphabetical order.
i am not familiar with c and i don't know how the following is possible:

run __fish_describe_command in the background, and have it return its
output with assyncronous I/O, hashing the result and updating your
initial list line by line as new data comes in. and start writing output
to the pager as soon as you have a screenful of input from
__fish_describe_command.

in other words, i do not think you need to wait for
__fish_describe_command before being able to start producing output.

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