From 4a9999871cc75f2d73d5dc83fbcad88bcaa5b921 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 19:57:33 +0200
Subject: bash completion: Cache the list of subcommands and available
 packages.

* etc/completion/bash/guix (_guix_complete_available_package): Cache the list
  of available packages in '_guix_available_packages' and use it.
  (_guix_complete): Cache the list of subcommands in '_guix_subcommands' and
  use it.
---
 etc/completion/bash/guix | 23 +++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

(limited to 'etc/completion')

diff --git a/etc/completion/bash/guix b/etc/completion/bash/guix
index e4d9a497b3..807a0b2e1f 100644
--- a/etc/completion/bash/guix
+++ b/etc/completion/bash/guix
@@ -18,15 +18,24 @@
 
 # Bash completion for Guix commands.
 
+declare _guix_available_packages
+
 _guix_complete_available_package ()
 {
     local prefix="$1"
-    local packages="$(${COMP_WORDS[0]} package -A "^$prefix" | cut -f1)"
-    COMPREPLY=($(compgen -W "$packages" -- "$prefix"))
+    if [ -z "$_guix_available_packages" ]
+    then
+	# Cache the complete list because it rarely changes and makes
+	# completion much faster.
+	_guix_available_packages="$(${COMP_WORDS[0]} package -A | cut -f1)"
+    fi
+    COMPREPLY=($(compgen -W "$_guix_available_packages" -- "$prefix"))
 }
 
 _guix_complete_installed_package ()
 {
+    # Here we do not cache the list of installed packages because that
+    # may change over time and the list is relatively small anyway.
     local prefix="$1"
     local packages="$(${COMP_WORDS[0]} package -I "^$prefix" | cut -f1)"
     COMPREPLY=($(compgen -W "$packages" -- "$prefix"))
@@ -88,6 +97,8 @@ _guix_complete_file ()
     COMPREPLY=()
 }
 
+declare _guix_subcommands
+
 _guix_complete ()
 {
     local word_count=${#COMP_WORDS[*]}
@@ -105,8 +116,12 @@ _guix_complete ()
 
     case $COMP_CWORD in
 	1)
-	    local subcommands="$(guix --help | grep '^  ' | cut -c 2-)"
-	    COMPREPLY=($(compgen -W "$subcommands" -- "$word_at_point"))
+	    if [ -z "$_guix_subcommands" ]
+	    then
+		# Cache the list of subcommands to speed things up.
+		_guix_subcommands="$(guix --help | grep '^  ' | cut -c 2-)"
+	    fi
+	    COMPREPLY=($(compgen -W "$_guix_subcommands" -- "$word_at_point"))
 	    ;;
 	*)
 	    if _guix_is_command "package"
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