GNU bug report logs - #3717
M-x man completion

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: jidanni <at> jidanni.org

Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:55:04 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Merged with 4056

Found in version 1:20100118-1

Done: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #305 received at 3717 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
To: Kevin Ryde <user42 <at> zip.com.au>
Cc: 3717 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Subject: Re: bug#3717: M-x man completion
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:35:47 +0200

> Man-completion-table would no doubt need a shell-quote-argument or
> something to get its match string through the shell.  But I still think
> Man-completion-table might better grab the entire list of page names
> once.  On my old pc with 13,000 page names (yes, really :-) it's almost
> as slow to fetch a few matches or the whole lot.  The cost is the RAM to
> keep them all of course.

How much RAM does this need?  With my 11,000 page names as text they take
700 KB.  I think this is not that much.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
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