From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: disk-usage
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 21:44:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <834l8zimwg.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877edvr30g.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> (message from Pierre Neidhardt on Tue, 19 Feb 2019 20:29:03 +0100)
> From: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 20:29:03 +0100
>
> > Still, using directory-files-and-attributes etc. would be more
> > portable than doing it with 'find' and 'du'.
>
> That's what I do, actually. I've provided two "listing" functions (customizable):
>
> - disk-usage--directory-size-with-emacs: use `directory-files-and-attributes'
> recursively everywhere. This is portable but very slow.
>
> - disk-usage--directory-size-with-du: This uses `directory-files-and-attributes'
> on the root folder to get the size of its direct subfiles, then `du -sb' on
> the remaining subfolders. This is much faster.
>
> Makes sense?
AFAICT, which one to use is left to the user, but I think it should be
automatically deduced by the package, in particular depending on
whether 'find' and 'du' are available.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-19 19:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-19 8:49 [ELPA] New package: disk-usage Pierre Neidhardt
2019-02-19 15:55 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-02-19 16:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-19 16:26 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-02-19 17:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-19 19:29 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-02-19 19:44 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-02-19 19:55 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-02-19 20:21 ` Michael Albinus
2019-02-19 20:26 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-02-19 20:39 ` Michael Albinus
2019-02-19 20:58 ` describe-mode bindings (was: [ELPA] New package: disk-usage) Stefan Monnier
2019-02-19 21:29 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-02-19 21:05 ` [ELPA] New package: disk-usage Pierre Neidhardt
2019-02-20 8:08 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-02-20 13:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-24 17:14 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-02-24 19:33 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-02-24 20:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-26 11:59 ` Michael Albinus
2019-02-26 15:08 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-02-26 15:25 ` Michael Albinus
2019-03-01 17:51 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-03-01 23:28 ` Michael Albinus
2019-03-02 13:51 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-03-03 10:28 ` Michael Albinus
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