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

[Michael Heerdegen]

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

> If so, what if the order is so different from the sort order in Dired
> that the resulting "selection" in Dired would be a noncontiguous
> region - multiple zones, as Juri mentioned?  Is that a problem?

That would be a problem.  I just try to avoid this case.

> Assuming that's not a problem (e.g. Dired has the
> same order, since the original order came from
> Dired - but see below), how would you transfer a
> selection in the external app to a selection
> (region) in Emacs?

I'm using the name of the file at the "border" between files I had
looked at and those I didn't (typically the last file I handled in the
external app).

> I guess `g' might not do what you want if Dired's
> sort order is by date/time, since the external app
> could have updated some files, making them more
> recent, so the order in Dired would change from
> what it was originally, and the Dired selection
> you would need might even be noncontiguous (?).

As said, I just try to avoid that case.

Michael.