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On Thursday 03 August 2006 22:23, Nicholas Miell wrote: > however I'd like to point out > that bash does have programmable completion and you may be able to > work up some hack to do user/group name caching at that level > (unfortunately, I don't think you can override builtin completion > methods, which means you can't just say "instead of using builtin user > completion, call this shell function instead").
but that wouldnt work on nearly the same scale as nscd ... you'd get a cache for the active shell, but every new shell would have the same initial (minutes long) penalty when doing user completion -mike
I'd also like to point out that zsh's programmable completion does allow you to override the default completion methods, which means you could actually replace the default -tilde- context completion function with one of your own choosing. I'm told that zsh is also superior to bash in many other ways.
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