Use case for tea --provides

[secondary-smiles]

Now that tea v0.20 adds the --provides mode, I wanted to test out how viable it really is.
I use oh-my-zsh with zsh-syntax-highlighting as my daily driver, and I was getting sick of commands highlighting as invalid even when provided by tea.
So I made a fork of the the syntax-highlighting repo that adds shaky tea support. You can add it as a plugin here if you're interested.
There is a significant speed drop however. In the area of around 100ms delay when typing commands. The delay only applies for the original command however. All flags have no delay when typed.
Note that in order for the plugin to apply, the tea magic script in your .zshrc needs to be slightly modified.
From

test -d "$HOME/.tea" && source <("$HOME/.tea/tea.xyz/v*/bin/tea" --magic --silent)

To

test -d "$HOME/.tea" && source <("$HOME/.tea/tea.xyz/v*/bin/tea" --magic --silent) && export TEA_MAGIC=1

Now, whenever you type in a command that tea provides, it'll be automatically colored as such instead of being highlighted as invalid.

[mxcl]

Love it 🫡

tea is not as fast as it should be for sure.

Caching the provides data based on the timestamp of the pantry seems like a good start to optimizing this.

In general I foresee a need to crunch the pantry data into an sqlite blob or something like that. We must be fast.

[agustif]

This worked wonderfully and thank you as it fell really off to not have tea linked packages highlighted. I wonder if it would be possible to get your fork merged upstream or otherwise maintain our own version of the plugin adatped for tea so it's easy to install that instead of the general highlight plugin? Wasn't so bad tho I only had to uninstall the original one and clone your repo instead of zsh-users and modify the tea magic script line on the .zshrc file

Thanks again for sharing ;)