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Re:How Bash Completion Works by pcr910303 on Monday October 07, 2019 @02:27AM (#21178028)
> Yeah homebrew does that remote lookup thing when I try to complete `brew install xx<TAB>`.

AFAIK Homebrew doesn't do remote lookup, you can try it out by turning off your Wi-Fi & autocompleting formula names still work.

> Because of the delay, it's not a good way to discover packages at all

The delay is due to ruby's slow speed, it looks like home-brew just searches the whole formula directory with ruby.

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