diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 140ee54ea..042c87f8e 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@
 
 ## Notes
 
-* All user-facing messages are now prepared using the `{cli}` package (#2418, @IndrajeetPatil). All messages have been reviewed and updated to be more informative and consistent.
+* All user-facing messages (including progress bar) are now prepared using the `{cli}` package (#2418, @IndrajeetPatil). All messages have been reviewed and updated to be more informative and consistent.
 * {lintr} now depends on R version 4.0.0. It already does so implicitly due to recursive upstream dependencies requiring this version; we've simply made that dependency explicit and up-front (#2569, @MichaelChirico).
 
 # lintr 3.1.2
diff --git a/R/lint.R b/R/lint.R
index 038253d5c..d9e135692 100644
--- a/R/lint.R
+++ b/R/lint.R
@@ -184,9 +184,7 @@ lint_dir <- function(path = ".", ...,
 
   lints <- flatten_lints(lapply(
     cli::cli_progress_along(files, name = "Running linters"),
-    function(idx) {
-      lint(files[idx], ..., parse_settings = FALSE, exclusions = exclusions)
-    }
+    function(idx) lint(files[idx], ..., parse_settings = FALSE, exclusions = exclusions)
   ))
 
   lints <- reorder_lints(lints)