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

[Michael Heerdegen]

Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

> > In Dired+, though I define command
> > `diredp-mark-region-files' (which, as has
> > been pointed out, DTRT wrt this bug), I
> > don't bind it to a key, by default.
>
> IIUC, what Michael described is not like Dired+,
> but more like another your library zones.el,
> i.e. after activating the region, as you move point
> in the Dired buffer, the region highlighting should
> be updated to put region faces only on file names
> using multiple regions, including the file name
> of the current line, regardless of where point
> is located on the current line: either before or
> after the file name, the file name will be highlighted.

I don't care that much what is highlighted.  I just care about how the
region, i.e. the current value of point and mark, are interpreted.

Michael.