On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Christian Brabandt <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Tue, November 12, 2013 16:53, Ben Fritz wrote: > > On Monday, November 11, 2013 10:45:15 PM UTC-6, Suresh Govindachar wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> > >> > >> Please consider providing the feature whereby i_Ctrl-N would ignore > >> > >> buffers whose name begins with \\machine_name\ and machine_name is a > >> > >> remote machine (Microsoft Uniform Naming Convention (UNC)). > >> > > > > I think what you're really asking is for a way to exclude buffers or > files > > from being processed by insert-mode completion, if you know scanning them > > will be slow. > > > > This could be true for very large file, or for files on a network share, > > or files that require reading with autocmds to unzip them or something. > > > > I support such an option. I like keeping 'path' fairly large for > searching > > with :find for a file, but this makes insert completion very slow if I > > allow it to search in included files. Previously when we were using > > ClearCase on my team, EVERY insert completion that scanned other files > was > > slow, because the ClearCase "dynamic view" mapped network drive is > > painfully slow. I had to turn off most of the completion functions. I'd > > certainly use a filter to remove specific directories from insert > > completion scanning, were it available. > > So this would mean, having a new buffer local option like > 'completebufignore' that is off by default and could be set to > ignore the current buffer from being processed for completion? > > To me it sounded more like in the buffer where you are running C-X C-O, you would have an option where you could list all the buffers you do not want to complete from. Kind of like browsefilter, but in this case, I can access the filetypes or filenames of the buffers to exclude. My 2 cents. Dave -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
