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Re: mutt -f completion causes shell to hang for a long time

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From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: martin f krafft <madduck@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: mutt -f completion causes shell to hang for a long time
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:46:14 +0100
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Hi,

On 2004-09-08 16:50:53 +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> Package: zsh
> Version: 4.2.1-3
> Severity: minor
> 
> I have a Maildir named ~/mail/debian and if I type
> 
>   mutt -f ~/mail/deb<tab>
> 
> the shell will freeze for several minutes:
> 
>   30122 madduck   25   0 14620  10M  5468 R    99.8  2.8  13:17 zsh
> 
> before finally returning with the completion. Granted, the
> directory has many mails, but I don't see why zsh should parse them.

Does this bug still occur?

I discovered a problem in _mailbox_cache when there's a ~/mail
directory with large subdirectories, and it was fixed 3 years
ago: http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2006/msg00191.html

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