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29.1; chart-space-usage in chart.el does not work correctly on windows

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From: Harm Van der Vegt <harmvegt <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 72919 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#72919: 29.1; chart-space-usage in chart.el does not work
 correctly on windows
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2024 21:06:58 +0200

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Clear, thanks for the response!

Op zo 1 sep 2024 om 20:35 schreef Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>:

> [Please use Reply All to reply, so that the bug tracker is CC'ed.]
>
> > From: Harm Van der Vegt <harmvegt <at> gmail.com>
> > Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2024 20:11:39 +0200
> >
> > >Thanks.  However, I think your changes are not entirely correct: they
> > >fail to account for space usage of files inside subdirectories of the
> > >directory which the user types at the prompt, whereas the
> > >implementation with "du" does account for that.
> >
> > That is indeed a pretty major difference, my bad!
> >
> > >In addition, I think if someone has 'du' on Windows, it should be used.
> >
> > Is there a preference for using system binaries above elisp for cases
> like these?
>
> I think 'du' has some tricks up its sleeve (like accounting correctly
> for block size), which a Lisp implementation can only approximate.  I
> don't think minor differences matter here, since this command is just
> an illustration of what chart.el can be used for, but I do want to use
> 'du' if it's available.
>
> > >So I came up with the following changes instead.  Could you please try
> > >them, both with and without du.exe on PATH?  If these changes give
> > >good results, I will install them.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > I've tried your changes with and without du. This uncovered something in
> the
> > original implementation, namely that the original implementation did not
> count
> > hidden files and directories. du * skips dotfiles for me.
> >
> > With du present chart-space-usage shows the lisp directory as the
> largest in the
> > emacs repository root. Without du it shows .git as the largest.
>
> This just means minor adjustments in the code I posted: we need to use
> a different regexp in the call to directory-files-recursively, and
> also ignore files that start with a dot in the command itself.  I will
> make those changes, thanks for pointing them out
>
> > I'm not sure which output is the wanted output.
>
> I think we want to be as close to 'du' as possible.
>
> > I've attempted to find a shell independent way to have du show dotfiles,
> but it
> > appears to be rather tricky.
>
> I don't think we want that.
>
> > I've made a new patch that makes the elisp implementation recursive,
> uses the
> > rounding function provided by you and shows dotfiles.
>
> I'd prefer to avoid recursion (in addition to what
> directory-files-recursively already does), because that could overflow
> the stack.
>
> I will post a version that ignores dotfiles.
>
> Here's the version you sent, repeated for the bug tracker:
>
> >From 6f53d65f9ae5e1c61a2ca2650b149c895ce9794c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> >From: Harm van der Vegt <harmvegt <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2024 20:03:34 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] Make chart-space-usage OS and shell independent
>
> ---
>  lisp/emacs-lisp/chart.el | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/chart.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/chart.el
> index c195ccb7165..b0302b55278 100644
> --- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/chart.el
> +++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/chart.el
> @@ -641,27 +641,44 @@ SORT-PRED if desired."
>                        (lambda (a b) (> (cdr a) (cdr b))))
>      ))
>
> +;; This assumes 4KB blocks
> +(defun chart--file-size (size)
> +  (* (/ (+ size 4095) 4096) 4096))
> +
> +(defun chart--directory-size (dir)
> +  "Compute total size of files in directory DIR and its subdirectories.
> +DIR is assumed to be a directory, verified by the caller."
> +  (let ((total-size 0))
> +    (dolist (file (directory-files dir t
> directory-files-no-dot-files-regexp))
> +      (cond
> +       ((file-regular-p file)
> +        (setq total-size (+ total-size (chart--file-size (nth 7
> (file-attributes file))))))
> +       ((file-directory-p file)
> +        (setq total-size (+ total-size (chart--directory-size file))))))
> +    total-size))
> +
>  (defun chart-space-usage (d)
>    "Display a top usage chart for directory D."
>    (interactive "DDirectory: ")
>    (message "Collecting statistics...")
>    (let ((nmlst nil)
> -        (cntlst nil))
> -    (dolist (file (directory-files d t))
> -      (when (file-regular-p file)
> -        (let ((size (nth 7 (file-attributes file))))
> +       (cntlst nil))
> +
> +    (dolist (file (directory-files d t
> directory-files-no-dot-files-regexp))
> +        (let ((size (if (file-regular-p file)
> +                        (nth 7 (file-attributes file))
> +                      (chart--directory-size file))))
>            (setq nmlst (cons (file-name-nondirectory file) nmlst))
> -          (setq cntlst (cons size cntlst)))))
> +          (setq cntlst (cons (chart--file-size size) cntlst))))
>
>      (if (not nmlst)
> -        (error "No files found!"))
> -
> -    ;; Display the chart if files are found
> +       (error "No files found!"))
>      (chart-bar-quickie 'vertical (format "Largest files in %s" d)
> -                       nmlst "File Name"
> -                       cntlst "File Size"
> -                       10
> -                       (lambda (a b) (> (cdr a) (cdr b))))))
> +                      nmlst "File Name"
> +                      cntlst "File Size"
> +                      10
> +                      (lambda (a b) (> (cdr a) (cdr b))))
> +    ))
>
>  (defun chart-emacs-storage ()
>    "Chart the current storage requirements of Emacs."
> --
> 2.11.0.windows.3
>
>

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