On Sat 26 Nov 2022 at 14:00:39 (+0100), email.list...@gmail.com wrote: > > Doing tab completion in my user account is quite sluggish, it takes > about half a second before anything happens after pressing tab. > > I've done an strace on the shell and it turns out that when I press > tab bash does a select() on stdout that times out after half a second. > When I'm logged in as root and do the same thing bash does not do > that, so I presume it has something to do with how tab completion is > configured when I'm logged in to my regular user account. I'm not sure > how to investigate this further, any help would be appreciated. I'm > still on debian 10 and my version of bash is 5.0.3(1)
Do you have a networked filesystem in your PATH? Or a directory on a slow device, like a stick or caddy? Remember to check symlinks. It might also help to know whether: . you've installed the package bash-completion, . you have [ -f /etc/bash_completion ] && . /etc/bash_completion in your startup files, . root has ditto. Cheers, David.
