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

[Richard Stallman]

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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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Dr Richard Stallman
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