Slow autocomplete when opening files over SSHFS

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Summary

The editor becomes extremely slow when trying to open files (via :o) that are accessed via SSHFS mounts. Every new character takes 1-2 seconds to show up, as if Helix is re-scanning the directory with every keystroke. ssh-ping reports latency to the remote server as ~50 ms and my SSH terminals are very responsive, so I don't suspect a bad connection.

I usually open Helix inside an SSH terminal to edit files "locally" on the server. I ran the above experiment to see if the "local Helix + remote filesystem" setup was better than the "remote Helix + local filesystem".

Reproduction Steps

I tried this:

1. Mount $DIRECTORY over SSHFS
2. Open Helix
3. Try to open a file under $DIRECTORY with :o
4. Type path to the file.

I expected this to happen:

Editor responds quickly to keystrokes.

Instead, this happened:

Editor becomes very slow to respond.

Helix log

~/.cache/helix/helix.log

please provide a copy of `~/.cache/helix/helix.log` here if possible, you may need to redact some of the lines

Platform

Linux

Terminal Emulator

GNOME Terminal

Installation Method

Download binary from releases page.

Helix Version

helix 24.7 (079f544)