Re: comments on file-completions

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From: Rich Salz
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1989 19:57

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>I think that filename completion could be enhanced by ...
>  2. Information about file types displayed by special characters. (*@/)

Ouch.  This can be real expensive; just doing name-printing means a simple
reading of the directory; finding the type of each item in the directory
means a gazillion stat(2) calls.
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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
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Subject: Re: comments on file-completions
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Date: 3 Aug 89 19:57:49 GMT
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