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

[Michael Heerdegen]

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

> > This is an important property of the current
> > implementation.
>
> It's not at all a property of the behavior
> of using a region to select.  Irrelevant.
> Apples & oranges.

I think he thinks in terms of consistency.  But consistency depends on
the view point, so his consistency is of no value for people with a
different view point.  Too bad we only know about three opinions.

> Please, add any options you like, if the
> default behavior is to fix this (minor) bug
> as just mentioned.  That doesn't mean that
> I agree that we need such an option, or that
> it's a good idea to add it.  But (as I said
> already) if that's the price for getting the
> bug fixed, so be it.

I see our different views as of the same right and value.  And the use
case (who uses marking commands with an active region at all?) is a
corner case.  I don't mind about the default as long as there is a new
option.  I would rather want to discuss what else should be done
(behavior of other marking commands etc, should we change
`dired-mark-if', etc.

Michael.