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

From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 11:37:22 -0500

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  > 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.

It might be possible to implement somethin to show a certain total by
default and avoid a painful slowdown, if the code stops counting when
it reaches a certain limit.

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