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

[Michael Heerdegen]

martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> writes:

> > When some users are confused by the current behavior, it would be good
> > to improve Emacs when it's simple as it is here.
>
> The only way to put this into work reliably is to provide a special
> mode that restricts highlighting to whole lines.

I don't see a reason for that claim.  We have one behavior now, and it
works reliably.  The behavior I expect would function with comparable
reliability.

Michael.