On 2022-11-26 16:55, David Wright wrote:
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.
No I have neither of those
It might also help to know whether:
. you've installed the package bash-completion,
It is installed yes
. you have [ -f /etc/bash_completion ] && . /etc/bash_completion
in your startup files,
Not in /etc/bash.bashrc, ~/.bashrc or in ~/.profile, same is true for
root. But it seems to be sourced from /etc/profile.
/etc/profile sources everything in /etc/profile.d/ which contains
bash_completion.sh. That in turn sources
/usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion if the bash option progcomp
is set, progcomp is set now so I presume it is set when /etc/profile is
run.
cheers
A
