When opening a big directory in means of "there are many files in the directory", ranger freezes.
In my case, I have for example a directory with ~870 000 files in it.
GUI window managers like Thunar actually freeze too, but I think we could improve this.
So instead of trying to show all files in the directory, we could show only X amount of files first. And then we could either have a command for "view more files" or do it like vlf (vlf is for opening large files. It only loads X lines of it first and when you get to the current last line, it loads more of the file).
This is some kind of a special case I guess as it is not that usual to have that many files in a directory. But to be able to also look into big directories would be a big plus.
Thanks in advance.
EDIT: I just tried it with ranger (ranger) and it needs some time to load the directory (just a few seconds) but is still way way faster and it does not freeze.
When opening a big directory in means of "there are many files in the directory", ranger freezes. In my case, I have for example a directory with ~870 000 files in it. GUI window managers like Thunar actually freeze too, but I think we could improve this.
So instead of trying to show all files in the directory, we could show only X amount of files first. And then we could either have a command for "view more files" or do it like vlf (vlf is for opening large files. It only loads X lines of it first and when you get to the current last line, it loads more of the file).
This is some kind of a special case I guess as it is not that usual to have that many files in a directory. But to be able to also look into big directories would be a big plus.
Thanks in advance.
EDIT: I just tried it with ranger (ranger) and it needs some time to load the directory (just a few seconds) but is still way way faster and it does not freeze.