[Xmonad] (no subject)

[Jamie Webb]

On 2007-10-16 08:32:44 Andrea Rossato wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 11:51:07PM +0100, Jamie Webb wrote:
> > My up-to-date repo appears still to be using bash compgen. Is there
> > a patch missing somewhere?
> 
> Well, the prompt uses bash to get directory completion (bash comepgen
> -A file). The real issue we are talking about is
> commandCompletionFunction.
>
> Now I'm going to write down some benchmark to compare the different
> approaches and have real numbers to reason with.

I'm pretty sure bash (or readline?) caches the contents of $PATH and
only re-checks the directory mtimes rather than doing the whole scan
each time. It's only 3k odd entries on my box. Could ShellPrompt do the
same?

/J