Antoine Pelisse wrote: > I think sorting is required for faster look-up, most likely with > dichotomic search. Otherwise it would have to search the whole list > each time. Oh, it's probably keeping just one copy of the completions in memory (which has to be sorted for search); this is also used to display. Makes sense, although I would have expected the shell to keep two copies: a sorted one for searching through, and another preserving the original order for displaying. I suppose they didn't think of it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html