From: Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 16:22:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [QUERY] How do you sort completions?
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On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 6:18 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra
<artagnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> Damn; so it's impossible to have a custom-sorted completion list in
> bash.  Any idea about zsh?  I know that there are completion groups,
> but I'd really like custom sorting.

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.