Instead of a config option how about making the completion respect --aur/--repo? No idea how hard that is to implement though.

Could do that, but the config would just have to move to the completion scripts. Not quite sure how that should work, an env var maybe?

I could probably update zsh, but I'm not familiar with bash or fish completion.

@ipha I wouldn't separate into 2 files. We already have a good file for repo, it's the database. We just add it to aur_fish.cache because it's convenient.
If there's an option to disable it makes far more sense to build the AUR completions on the go like pacman does.

To alleviate network side pains I propose the following:

• Bump the update time from 48h to a user controlled value, I didn't add this option initially because I'm not such a fan of battering the AUR with requests.
• When grabbing the AUR packages file (from network), use a very small timeout so we can ignore the AUR completion if it's taking too long.

If it's not network sided, I suppose you're using bash which is painfully slow when it comes to completions, that has no cure unfortunately.

@Morganamilo It's a pain on the completion side but doable and easy on the yay side. Making it respect that makes more sense

So it's zsh, better but not perfect when it comes to large completion file indexing. This option if added only for the "clutter" aspect wouldn't need to be added for fish as it allows for this display:

yay -S 0a
0ad  (community)  0ad-data  (community)  0ad-data-git  (AUR)  0ad-git  (AUR)

Any sort of network action on completion will have a noticeable delay -- even with a short timeout.
Even with the (repo) tags, for my use-case, I never want aur completion.

How do propose I proceed if I want a feature that just turns off aur completions?

The way I see it, the point of Yay is to add AUR support, if you're only interested in repo packages whats wrong with pacman?

I agree with this issue. Autocompletion is delayed and the ability to disable AUR completion could be useful.

@Morganamilo Yes, AUR helpers are used to use AUR. But some people (me as an example) are using AUR-helper's command instead pacman for every case. So for example when I want to install package from Arch repo (I am sure it is placed in repo, no in AUR) I'm using yay -S [first letters][tab] instead sudo pacman -S [first letters][tab] — for consistency and convenience. And for this use case disabling AUR completion is good. Yes, I can use yay -S --repo [first letters][tab] but this is not convenient, it's incompatible with pacman. I want to use pacman switches with yay command.

Hopefully #584 is good enough for you. The network delay should be gone at least. If not you canforce it away by setting --completioninterval -1.