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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 Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 2:16 AM, Bart Schaefer
<schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> On Jan 23,  1:04pm, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> }
> } Time to delegate completion to a subprocess? That'd make it possible
> } to use Zsh completions from outside the shell as well.

> I just knew someone was going to say this.

:-)

> Completion is very closely tied into ZLE, and ZLE is very closely tied
> into the shell.  It's not going to turn into a readline library without
> a complete rewrite.

True.

> We've already seen the "do it externally" plan break down with the _git
> issue discussed in the thread leading up to zsh-users/18321 (about which
> we're sort of awaiting your input, Nikolai).

Uh, I=E2=80=99ve totally missed this.  I guess a zstyle would work, but
couldn=E2=80=99t one check if completion is being done by partial-path?

I=E2=80=99m sorry, but that=E2=80=99s about as much input as I=E2=80=99ll l=
ikely be able to
provide.  I have a negative amount of time available to allocate to
_git.  It seemed like Torstein and others had picked up the pieces?