Subject: bug#22457: 24.5; [PATCH] `dired-mark-if' should not count non-changes

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 00:53:12 +0200

Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]> writes:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> --
>> *** The marking commands now report how many files were marked by the
>> command itself, not how many files are marked in total.
>> --
>
> I don't think this exactly describes what the patch changed: it is not
> about new vs total marks, but about marks of files that were already
> marked before, right?

It's this code:

          (unless (looking-at-p (char-to-string dired-marker-char))
            (delete-char 1)
            (insert dired-marker-char)
            (setq count (1+ count))))

So now it says how many lines that are marked this time.  Previously it
gave you a total tally of all marked files.

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