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Yeah homebrew does that remote lookup thing when I try to complete `brew install xx<TAB>`. Because of the delay, it's not a good way to discover packages at all
by SPBS 7y ago
Yeah homebrew does that remote lookup thing when I try to complete `brew install xx<TAB>`. Because of the delay, it's not a good way to discover packages at all especially if the package name has an unexpected prefix that causes bash completion to fail. Much better to just `brew search xx` then browse the entire list of possible candidates than to rely on tab completion.
- pcr910303 7y ago> Yeah homebrew does that remote lookup thing when I try to complete `brew install xx<TAB>`. AFAIK Homebrew doesn't do remote lookup, you can try it out by turning off your Wi-Fi & autocompleting formula names still work. > Because of the delay, it's not a good way to discover packages at all The delay is due to ruby's slow speed, it looks like home-brew just searches the whole formula directory with ruby.