It is too slow. about k

[supercrabtree]

Hello, I don't see the point in having the --no-vcs flag on by default. That is basically k's killer feature. Outside of a git repo it looks inside each directory listed and if it's a repo decorates the status of that repo to the output of ls. k is slow because git is slow, if you don't need the git stuff just use ls -la

[GSI]

The --no-vcs option speeds up things significantly. IMO the following should actually be done by k by default (PR, anyone?), but for now I just made a wrapper function:

how_k_should_do_this_by_default () {                                                                                                                                                                     
        git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree &> /dev/null && k $@ || k --no-vcs $@
}
alias l='how_k_should_do_this_by_default'

This uses --no-vcs whenever we are not in a Git directory. (Run from within Git directories it will still use the slow but more detailled variant.)

[GSI]

Just realized that the above function would need to be adapted as to have the git command work on the directories we're actually inspecting. Currently it only looks at $PWD while $@ might be some faraway dir(s).