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From: Shawn Wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com>
To: Arseny Tolmachev <eiennohito@gmail.com>,zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: [Feature suggestion] (user configurable) timeout for generating completion lists
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 08:51:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3bf76a71-7bd2-4c8e-80b0-b882aee92b47@email.android.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACcU-g0qb3gZVLPPS2bQBixuozSsXd_9ObK+V6CTcaP4qfiFtA@mail.gmail.com>



Arseny Tolmachev <eiennohito@gmail.com> wrote:
>Good time of day to everyone.
>
>Sometimes you press [Tab] by instinct when in directory that is
>network-mounted and has some millions files in it.
>In this situation zsh basically ignores the [Ctrl+C] and don't respond
>to
>anything for a bit of time.
>It would be very great if there was a way to specify a timeout for
>completion generation for zsh. Error message can be something like
>"completion timeouted".
>What do you think about this?
>

IDK what the problem with NFS might be however IIRC this works with rsync (haven't tried with sshfs though). So maybe try that?

>There are some questions on stackexchange from users wanting to get the
>feature
>http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/32363/how-to-specify-timeout-for-tab-completion-in-zsh
>http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/39404/cancel-zsh-tab-completion
>with nothing as answer except the SIGINT, however in my case zsh didn't
>respond for SIGINT as well.
>
>
>Thank you!
>
>Arseny.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-01-22 13:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-20  7:13 Arseny Tolmachev
2014-01-22  8:04 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-01-23 12:04   ` Nikolai Weibull
2014-01-24  1:16     ` Bart Schaefer
2014-01-24  9:00       ` Nikolai Weibull
2014-01-25 20:09         ` _git and partial completion, again Bart Schaefer
2014-01-24 14:46       ` [Feature suggestion] (user configurable) timeout for generating completion lists Greg Klanderman
2014-01-25 20:49         ` Bart Schaefer
2014-01-29 16:29           ` Greg Klanderman
2014-02-25 15:35           ` Greg Klanderman
2014-01-22 13:51 ` Shawn Wilson [this message]

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