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