Aider-AI
What shell is best to work with Aider?
Issue
The /add method works very slowly for me, listing and filtering work very slowly.
I work on a computer with a fast processor and I have 64 gigs of RAM and an SSD drive. So I guess the problem is in the shell?
Version and model info
Aider v0.40.7-dev Models: openrouter/anthropic/claude-3.5-sonnet with diff edit format, weak model openrouter/anthropic/claude-3-haiku Git repo: .git with 36 files Repo-map: using 2028 tokens
Aider should work quickly in a repo with only 36 files. It is known to be a bit slow on large repos with hundreds of files or more.
I started running it from zsh shell and it seems to be a bit faster
simple test
/add and just type spacebar and how many seconds does it take for the cursor to move, for me it takes 3
/add and a random string of characters on the keyboard, it takes about 3 seconds to print something
which means that if I enter the wrong class name, I have to wait 3 seconds until I see result of backspace
I just made a change which improved this significantly.
The change is available in the main branch. You can get it by installing the latest version from github:
python -m pip install --upgrade git+https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider.git
If you have a chance to try it, let me know if it works better for you.
Yes, it works much better. Thank you very much for fixing it. Now there is about a 3 second delay but only the first time you use /add. So what could be improved is to load all the information asynchronously after startup to make the first use of /add faster.
But not to be too beautiful :-( I again encountered the same problem described below.
Previously I thought it might have something to do with my environment. But apparently it's on Aider's side. It can loop endlessly.
I don't have a deterministic description of how to trigger this. I just write the correct version of the class and then after typing when it stops finding matching ones, than I click backspace and want to write the next characters again and then Aider gets stuck. It gets into an infinite loop. Ctrl+C breaks this loop and you can continue typing.
Here it stucked on Cha and after selecting Ctrl+C it added the Cha file to the main directory.
This stuck also happened to me several times on earlier versions. Now I have the version: v0.42.1-dev
Please let me know if you are able to describe how to reproduce the problem you're describing.
I'm going to close this issue for now, but feel free to add a comment here and I will re-open or file a new issue any time.