bug#39902: 28.0.50; Marking in dired with active region

[martin rudalics]

> What I expect is a behavior analogue to "graphical" file browsers (with
> icons and such - I don't use one, but anyway).  When you mark a region
> there with the mouse, all files "touched" are in.  And it's enough when
> the icon is included, i.e. the file is not identified with the
> occurrence of the name on the screen but with the whole representation,
> including the icon etc.  I guess that's where my way of thinking comes
> from.

Such "graphical" file browsers are line-based, they do not have a way to
specify a position within such a line unless you are in the (usually F2
invoked) rename mode which puts a mask on the file name whose contents
you can modify.

martin