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

[Michael Heerdegen]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:


> I didn't understand Michael's request to be
> about multiple zones/regions (noncontiguous).
>
> I think he's just saying what I was saying
> earlier: to mark a "file in the region" it
> should be sufficient that some part of the
> file's line is in the region.  It should
> not be a requirement that the full line -
> all of its chars (including newline) be
> within the region.
>
> Yes, Michael did mention highlighting, but
> I think what's important to him is perhaps
> just that you can quickly and easily use
> the region to specify a set of files to mark.
>
> Whether the region highlight covers this or
> that isn't very important, I think.  What's
> surprising is that you (currently) have to
> be sure to select every bit of a file's line,
> for it to be marked.

Yes, a real good summary, thanks!

Michael.