Subject: Re: bug#10624: Dired-marking all files in the region

From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 09:51:47 +0200

> IOW, why change the behavior for Dired generally (i.e., including outside WDired
> mode), for a problem that you found only inside WDired?

This problem is not WDired specific.  It is better to opt-in this functionality
by setting the `interactive' arg than to opt-out it in specific packages
because this feature makes sense only for interactive use in Dired.