size of directories

[excalibur1234]

k shows the size of directories to be 4.1k while this is technically correct, it is a little confusing. i would prefer to not see any size of directories (e.g. display a - symbol instead).

[Mange]

It's still useful as the number of files in a directory affects its size. I've seen directories that took megabytes in size because they had thousands of files in them. It was hard to open such a directory and having tools that displayed the directory size helped me to find the issues without having to open the directories and count filew (which would take minutes).

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k shows the size of directories to be 4.1k while this is technically correct, it is a little confusing. i would prefer to not see any size of directories (e.g. display a - symbol instead).

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[excalibur1234]

i see your point.

but in this case, i would suggest using a separate color palette for directories: use black/grey/white colors (like the color palette for dates) make all sizes of 4.1k almost invisible and directories >100k (please adjust this number as you see fit) very clearly visible.

[Mange]

That sounds useful!

[excalibur1234]

i just tested this fork: https://github.com/teancom/k

it has dynamic colors of sizes and ages of directories/files. this can help to improve the situation a little - but not solve it.

[excalibur1234]

it looks like exa is currently implementing many features of k: https://github.com/ogham/exa

if exa's development speed stays the same, i am pretty sure that it will be an all-around better alternative to k pretty soon.

[supercrabtree]

PRs welcome