Tijs Mallaerts <[email protected]> writes: Hi Tijs,
> There seems to be a big difference in performance between running an > "ls -l" command in eshell over tramp and opening a dired buffer for > the same remote directory. Opening the dired buffer appears to be a > lot faster. > > Is there a way to change this behavior through configuration settings? `ls' calls the eshell function `eshell/ls': --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Welcome to the Emacs shell ~ $ which ls eshell/ls is a compiled Lisp function in ‘em-ls.el’ --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- It calls `file-attributes' for every single file. Maybe it could be optimized to call just once `directory-files-and-attributes' instead. If you don't want this, call the external `ls' functionalityin eshell by --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- ~ $ *ls -l --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- There's nothing Tramp can do in this case, except changing the timeouts for cache expiry. But the first `ls -l' in a directory would still last long. > Thanks! > Tijs Best regards, Michael. _______________________________________________ Tramp-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/tramp-devel
