Re: How to disable ido and icomplete in some path/directory?

[Stefan Monnier]

> It is not a bug. Emacs will "immediately" process my key, and start trying
> to building the next list of completions.
> However, the network is slow, thereby, the response of emacs is delayed.

Could you clarify here which response is delayed (since you said above
that Emacs "immediately" processes the key).

Normally, what should happen (barring bugs) is:

- let's say you're in a prompt like "Find file: /foo/bar/"
  where /foo/bar is a "slow" directory.
- Emacs is busy trying to get the list of completions.
- you hit "t"
- Emacs promptly stops trying to get the list of completions, and
  updates the minibuffer to: "Find file: /foo/bar/t"
- it then (re)tries to get the list of completions.

So if the list of completions takes too much time, it should behave
pretty much identically to what happens with icomplete disabled (I'm
talking abut icomplete here, not sure what ido would do).


        Stefan