From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Jacobson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: emacs' TAB completions slower than bash's? Date: 22 Mar 2002 02:09:52 +0800 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <7443-Sun17Mar2002063446+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> Reply-To: jidanni@yahoo.com.tw NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016739277 27875 127.0.0.1 (21 Mar 2002 19:34:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 19:34:37 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16o8Ka-0007FU-00 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:34:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16o8KU-0006pF-00; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 14:34:30 -0500 Original-Received: from chx400.switch.ch ([130.59.10.2]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16o8Ik-0006c5-00 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 14:32:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.fu-berlin.de ([160.45.11.165]) by chx400.switch.ch with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16o8Ij-00061D-00 for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:32:41 +0100 Original-Received: by mail.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.2.0.98) from Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (160.45.10.36) with esmtp id ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:32:40 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.fu-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:32:39 +0100 (MET) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: 61-227-44-203.hinet-ip.hinet.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 20 X-Orig-NNTP-Posting-Host: 61-227-44-203.hinet-ip.hinet.net (61.227.44.203) X-Orig-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1016739159 21514135 61.227.44.203 (16 [99749]) X-Orig-Path: localhost.localdomain!nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:34 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:34 >> OK, load up emacs with 20 different buffers, do C-x b TAB >> The first time one does this, it seems mighty slow. If one does it >> again, it is real fast. Processor: P166. >> >> Ok, now in bash >> $ bla bla /dev/ttySR >> Display all 512 possibilities? (y or n) y Eli> Please compare the Bash completion with "C-x C-f TAB", not "C-x b TAB". Eli> The latter doesn't work on files, but on buffers, so you are comparing Eli> apples with oranges. I saying that emacs takes much longer to show me a list of 20 things than bash does for 512 things. I did not inquire about where those things come from or are stored. It would seem that asking emacs about things in its memory [buffer names] should be faster than having to get information [file names] from the disk. However, it seems the opposite is true. -- http://www.geocities.com/jidanni/ Taiwan(04)25854780 _______________________________________________ Bug-gnu-emacs mailing list Bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnu-emacs