On 09/25/2011 10:07 PM, Ville Skyttä wrote: > Hello, > > Even though we don't have a roadmap item for dynamic completion loading > (bash 4+'s complete -D), I'd like to start implementing it.
Okay, first cut of this is now done; I've just pushed a new branch "dynamic-loading" containing this stuff to git. Testsuite needs work, I haven't done anything to it. It loads all completions and proceeds to try to use them even if the needed commands are not available, so there will be lots of failures. Maybe we'd need to go back to what it was before commit 79b9984 at least partially or something like that. http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/bash-completion-devel/2010-February/002538.html http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/bash-completion-devel/2010-February/002556.html Another thing that probably won't work as smoothly as it could is that if one ends up loading and using a completion for a command that is not installed, there might be some stderr spewage if executing that command is attempted at completion time. I think it's good enough if we fix these as we find them (I'm not aware of anything at the moment, but then again I haven't even looked). Other than those known/suspected broken bits, it seems to work well for me. The boxes where I use bash-completion most have SSD disks nowadays and for those the initial load time wasn't really an issue even before this stuff, but it certainly doesn't hurt either. On the other hand I've done some artificial tests on other boxes with slower disks and the improvement seems very promising. I think loading completions on demand is a winner. Please give the branch a try and let the list know how it goes. _______________________________________________ Bash-completion-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/bash-completion-devel
