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

[Pieter van Oostrum]

Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

>> Really?  What feature is that?  Could you please
>> point me to my request for it?
>
> bug#10624
>
>> Could you also please describe the user habit in
>> question, and the change that would break it?
>
> The most obvious way for users to mark e.g. next 2 files
> is to type S-down 2 times, then type 'm', especially
> convenient when arrow keys are located near the 'm' key.
>
> For example, here is the screenshot where you agreed
> that only 2 files should be marked:
>
(>
>
>
> But this is not much different from this screenshot
> because 'file3' still is not inside the region:
>
()Sorry, the images are not included in the followup)

What I see in this scenario (S-down twice), looks like the second image: cursor 
just before the first character of the third filename, the one that should not 
be included.
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