[Bash-completion-devel] [SCM] bash-completion branch, master, updated. 1.90-59-g2932491

[Ville Skyttä]

On 11/20/2011 08:07 PM, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
> commit 2932491a2c1ec611194d55a9390b708a32403b35
> Author: Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi>
> Date:   Sun Nov 20 20:01:13 2011 +0200
> 
>     dict: Speed up word completion with common use cases and large word lists.
>     
>     /usr/share/dict/words has 479829 entries on my box which is too much
>     for practical compgen -W usage, narrow it down with grep in common use
>     cases.

By the way, this is something we could do for other completions that
need to process long word lists as well; having functions for escaping
metacharacters for sed and grep and maybe awk would be useful...