Is this the lesson topic you are referencing to? It’s a different topic than this one…which might explain the confusion about your question.
Like this message from @Jamolay
"I have worked on this module with fingers only. It works fine.
I am not a pick person, but there are some advantages to picks in some style of play.
I also think you can do it all, at least almost, with fingers. It would help to spend time on finger technique. It takes a lot of dedicated practice, but will make everything easier and sound better."
@Tbushell I saw this is the next lesson but I’m really talking about this one, I havent checked the next one yet.
I think @MAT1953 gave me the right direction which is the paid strumming course.
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Hi @Livelong ,
There is a lesson on how to get this sort of sound with thumb and fingers:
This might be what you are looking for. (I just noticed, this is the very next lesson in the module).
It seems the fingerstyle version is more oriented towards acoustic guitar, while the pick version I associate with a clean, jangly electric guitar, like you might hear from R.E.M. or the Byrds, etc. The finger version doesn’t bring to mind Knopfler, to my ears, certainly not his electric playing. (Though, I imagine you’re more familiar with his music than I am, and he may have done tons of songs in this style that I’m not aware of. 
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I was trying to transcribe the accoustic intro of Where do you think you’re going and it seems that in the intro there is a strong accent on a high note, like if he was picking the thin string as described in this lesson while upstrumming. I could not reproduce this sound so I just left it in the meanwhile. That could be something like this.
Really hard to understand what he really does as he’s pretty fast, he did not release tabs and there’s almost no live for the Communique album. You can see his fingers roadraging the fretboard on the Sultans of Swing lives but there is just the Rockpalast for WDYG which is way easier.
The next lesson might be it. I’ll do this lesson with a pick, can’t hurt me anyway, and I’ll go into the next one and see if it suits.
Thanks much for your answers all
I’ve also heard that “Mark Kopfler does not use a pick”. And I understand that he often does not…but this 2024 interview in Guitar Player magazine implies the story is complicated. Indeed, he states “I didn’t give it [using a plectrum] up until recently.”