Subject: Re: bug#22829: Acknowledgement (25.1.50; Display number of marked files)

From: Tino Calancha <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 19:34:47 +0900 (JST)

> Some parts of old code (to parse the dired buffer) would be useful
> only in case if you decide to implement displaying recursive
> directory sizes in-line as was requested yesterday in
> http://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/20766/display-recursive-folder-sizes-in-line-in-dired
I guess that request is related with the Richard's concern mentioned before in this thread.
Adding such information by default in the dired buffer may slow down 
things too much.
If the ls command would add a new switch to show such recursive 
directory sizes, maybe it could be reasonable to implement such option. 
Otherwise, i don't think it could be practical.