From: leitner@inf.fu-berlin.de (Felix von Leitner)
To: zsh-list@sterling.com (Z-Shell Liste)
Subject: proposal: GDBM completion
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 13:23:16 +0200 (MET DST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m0sQCG4-00018FC@inf.fu-berlin.de> (raw)
Hi folks !
I wonder whether we could implement some data base completion. What I
want to have is man page completion, but reading all the man pages from
an NFS server is very slow, and we have so many man pages installed that
I don't want zsh to keep the list in memory.
The newer Berkeley db library has a B-tree database type, which can be
searched the way we need to implement completion. Wouldn't it be
possible to implement some database lookup completion ? I'd like to
write a new man(1) which uses the database to find the man pages, and
I'd like to have zsh complete my man pages ;)
Felix
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next reply other threads:[~1995-06-26 11:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1995-06-26 11:23 Felix von Leitner [this message]
1995-06-26 18:58 ` Richard Coleman
1995-06-27 14:10 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
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