On 26 July 2010 00:26, David Antliff wrote: > Thanks everyone - using these tips I was able to determine that > bash_completion was actually running twice - once by > /etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh, and again by my own .bash_profile, > which was modifying the path prior to invoking it so that apps in my > ~/bin were picked up. I don't actually have anything useful in there > any more so it's really just a bunch of old stuff I brought over from > my Linux config. > > I've tidied it up now. I now get the bash prompt after about 5 > seconds, rather than 10. Disabling bash_completion completely gives me > a prompt in less than 1 second, but I do quite like bash_completion so > I'll live with that.
FWIW, zsh with fancy completion enabled starts in one to two seconds for me. Not suggesting that switching shell is an easy fix though. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
