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Author SHA1 Message Date
Mahmoud Al-Qudsi
4974ecfc32 Block pseudo/meta arguments from ./configure completions
Also finishes faster.
2018-05-17 23:36:56 -05:00
Mahmoud Al-Qudsi
9d9afd8264 Speed up ./configure completion by not running ./configure --help
Instead, attempt to extract the message that _would_ be displayed on
execution of `./configure --help` by relying on some markers present in
autoconf-generated configure files.

As measured with 'hyperfine' on a laptop running in reduced frequency
power savings mode, `fish -c "__fish_parse_configure ./configure"`
runtime dropped from ~1.25s to ~0.8ms, which is inline with the
previously observed ~350ms execution time for `./configure --help`.
fish's own startup time is approximately 75ms before parsing begins.

Still very slow, but much better.
2018-04-18 15:40:52 -05:00
Mahmoud Al-Qudsi
6c5e5d35a9 Add real completions for ./configure
This relies on the new `read --line/-L` support as an entire parser for
the output of `./configure --help`  was written in fishscript. Also
doesn't work without 72f32e6d8a7905b064680ec4b578c41dea62bf84.

The completion script is slow... a function of both the autotools
configure script itself being written in a shell script combined with a
fishscript output parser.

fish's own `./configure --help` takes around 350ms to execute, while
`__fish_parse_configure ./configure` (which runs that behind the scenes)
takes around 660ms to run, all-in-all - a not insignificant overhead.

Output can be cached (based off of ./configure hash or mtime) in the
future if this is a big deal.
2018-04-17 21:35:51 -05:00