From: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
To: John Cooper <john.cooper@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: "'zsh-users@sunsite.dk'" <zsh-users@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: Very slow filename completion (when case-insensitive) with cygwin zsh
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 16:39:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17670.1064504355@csr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "John Cooper"'s message of "Thu, 25 Sep 2003 16:09:28 BST." <B5885AA769039C49BD9295955CB2E0E43785F4@lonpexch501.ctxuk.citrix.com>
John Cooper wrote:
> I've experiencing very slow (> 1 sec per tab key press) filename completion,
> particularly on SMB mounted drives. The problem didn't occur when using
> `zsh -f' and I finally tracked the slowness down to the following line in my
> .zshrc :
>
> zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list 'm:{a-z}={A-Z}'
Interesting. I wasn't aware of that.
I think the problem is that case insensitive completion is done by
pattern matching, which does a good deal more file handling. It can
probably be improved by an option to tell the shell that the OS is
case-insensitive, but I haven't looked in detail yet.
--
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070
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