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Subject: Re: [Feature suggestion] (user configurable) timeout for generating
 completion lists
From: Nikolai Weibull <now@disu.se>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
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On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Bart Schaefer
<schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> On Jan 20,  4:13pm, Arseny Tolmachev wrote:
> }
> } 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.

> There are two possible situations here.  (Probably more than two, but
> only two likely ones.)

> (1) The shell process is actually in "disk wait" condition, blocked to
> wait for the NFS volume to respond.  If this is the case, there's not
> a lot that can be done; any timeout that might be set up will also be
> held until the disk condition clears.


Time to delegate completion to a subprocess? That=E2=80=99d make it possibl=
e
to use Zsh completions from outside the shell as well.