tab autocomplete is going mad (waiting and giving a beep or being slow then displaying too many possibilities)

tab autocomplete is going mad (waiting and giving a beep or being slow then displaying too many possibilities)

[Marilo]

Tab autocomplete is going mad.. 
Either 
A) It waits for a while, in which time I can't type anything, then it gives a beep and exits, letting me type, but not displaying anything
or
B) It waits for a while, then says there are loads of possibilities

I'll demonstrate showing how it is for this directory.

First i'll show the directories contents in regular cmd.exe 

Then i'll show the tab behaviour. There isn't much to show for case A(the case of the beep). But i'll show for Case B(the long listing). And i'm sure if Case A or B is solved, Case A and case B will be solved. So let's look at Case B(the long listing).

Here are the real contents of the ccc directory


C:\cygwin\home>cd user 

C:\cygwin\home\user>cd ccc 

C:\cygwin\home\user\ccc>dir 
Volume in drive C has no label. 
Volume Serial Number is B411-D580 

Directory of C:\cygwin\home\user\ccc 

13/04/2015  10:08 PM    <DIR>          . 
13/04/2015  10:08 PM    <DIR>          .. 
13/04/2015  10:08 PM                 0 r 
1 File(s)              0 bytes 
2 Dir(s)   7,146,205,184 bytes free 

C:\cygwin\home\user\ccc>

Or the real contents from cygwin with ls (rather than tab)

user@comp ~/ccc 
$ pwd 
/home/user/ccc 

user@comp ~/ccc 
$ ls 
r 

user@comp ~/ccc 
$ ls -l 
total 0 
-rw-r--r-- 1 user None 0 Apr 13 22:08 r 

user@comp ~/ccc 
$ 




Going into cygwin-

C:\cygwin>cygwin<ENTER>
For some reason tab is going mad in cygwin 
user@comp ~/ccc  <---- I hit Tab
$ 
Display all 2382 possibilities? (y or n) 
! 
) 
./ 
: 
[ 
[.exe 
[[ 
]] 
_DataOracleClientPerfCounters_shared12_neutral.h 
_DataOracleClientPerfCounters_shared12_neutral.ini 
_DataPerfCounters.h 
_DataPerfCounters.ini 
_dataperfcounters_shared12_neutral.h 
_dataperfcounters_shared12_neutral.ini 
_NetworkingPerfCounters.h 
_Networkingperfcounters.ini 
_NetworkingPerfCounters_v2.h 
_Networkingperfcounters_v2.ini 
_SMSvcHostPerfCounters.h 
_SMSvcHostPerfCounters.ini 
_TransactionBridgePerfCounters.h 
_TransactionBridgePerfCounters.ini 
{ 
} 
1 
3rd-party-licenses.txt 
7B296FB0-376B-497e-B012-9C450E1B7327-5P-0.C7483456-A289-439 
7B296FB0-376B-497e-B012-9C450E1B7327-5P-1.C7483456-A289-439 
a.a 
a.b 
a.txt 
a2p.exe 
aaclient.mof 
--More-- 

user@comp ~/ccc 
$ 

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Re: tab autocomplete is going mad (waiting and giving a beep or being slow then displaying too many possibilities)

[René Berber]

On 4/14/2015 4:14 AM, Marilo wrote:

> Tab autocomplete is going mad.. 

Same here, but only with network shares.

And it gets weird:

1. It just doesn't do anything, except blocking the terminal (mintty
running bash).

2. It gobbles the first ^C, doing nothing, echoes the second, again
doing nothing (terminal still blocked).

3. Sometimes, not always, after the 3rd ^C it spits the completion, and
blocks again.  "Spits" as in "^Ccompletion^C", echoing th

Environment:

$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW T7400 1.7.35(0.287/5/3) 2015-03-04 12:07 i686 Cygwin

with the latest bash ( 4.3.33(1)), mintty (1.1.3).

$ cygcheck --check-setup | grep -v OK
Cygwin Package Information
Package                               Version            Status
libsasl2                              2.1.23-1           Incomplete

which seems irrelevant.
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Re: tab autocomplete is going mad (waiting and giving a beep or being slow then displaying too many possibilities)

[René Berber]

Additional info:

It works sometimes, then doesn't.

Bash left a stackdump, after repeated ^C s.

$ cat bash.exe.stackdump
Stack trace:
Frame     Function  Args
0028BC68  61030F12 (00000310, 0000EA60, 000000A4, 0028BCC8)
0028BD88  610E514A (00100000, 00000000, 00000001, 00100000)

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