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On 07/23/2010 02:50 PM, John Cromartie wrote:
> When I type /cyg<tab>  or /cygdrive/c/Prog<tab>  or try similar
> completions, the shell can hang for a good 30-40 seconds. I don't have
> any network drives on my path. What's could be causing this?

Use 'set -vx<ENTER>' before typing '/cyg<TAB>', so that you can see the 
full range of any commands being executed while computing the 
completion.  If any one of them takes particularly long, that would be 
useful to know.  Also, it may just be an issue of BLODA or windows 
itself taking a long time to enumerate all files in a large directory.

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