Re: Avoid LDAP hit during completion

[Chris Wong <chris_wong@mac.com>]

Peter,

My apology for the late reply.  I was out of town for a few days.

I tried your suggested solution and now it doesn't seem to hit LDAP  
any more.

Thank you so much.

Chris

On Jun 8, 2005, at 2:35 AM, Peter Stephenson wrote:

> Chris wong wrote:
>
>> Peter, thanks for the xtrace trick.  Here is the partial output. The
>> completion slow down (or appeared to be frozen) at _all_labels:39,
>> (boxed up in asterisks below).  Any help would be much appreciated.
>>
>
> OK, so it was userdirs... You can relatively easily stop this  
> happening
> for most contexts by copying the _users function to somewhere  
> earlier in
> your $fpath and commenting out the last line.  You can still have
> a list of specific users you want to complete, but it won't query the
> system.  (If you have permission you can doctor _users in place, of  
> course.)
>
> There are still other places that use userdirs.  One is the _expand
> completer.  If you use that you can do a similar trick by commenting
> out the complete expression in braces:
>
>   { [[ ( "$word" = \~* && ${#userdirs[(I)${word[2,-1]}*]}+$ 
> {#nameddirs[(I)${word
> [2,-1]}*]} -gt 1 ) ||
>        ( "$word" = *\$[a-zA-Z0-9_]## &&
>          ${#parameters[(I)${word##*\$}*]} -ne 1 ) ]] && continue=1 }
>
> You can decide if you need to worry about _tilde_files.
>
> I can see uses for a feature to override special parameters like
> userdirs selectively.  Unfortunately the current state of the  
> parameter
> code makes implementing this very hairy.
>
> -- 
> Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>                  Software Engineer
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