[xxbondsxx]

@ploxiln -- edited my comment explaining a lot of devs here use network mounts (in which case checking for existence takes a lot longer). I'd love to explore this though, either behind a config setting or eventually as the default behavior! What do you think?

[sandyarmstrong]

I think to have usable matching you're going to have to go that way, unless you want to write custom parsing code for each command's output.

[ploxiln]

yeah, if the files are not either local or on an NFS mount with sub-millisecond latency (my test took ~ 1 second over NFS to a VM), it's going to take too long. I hadn't thought of that situation

[jankassens]

You could test for a single file (possible with a timeout) and see if it's "fast enough" to check all files.

You could also check in the background and update the display if the heuristic turned out wrong.