Subject: Re: bug#11221: Shift-select-mode has no effect

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:03:09 -0400

Brian Tannahill wrote:

> (global-set-key (kbd "M-J")   'backward-word)
[...]
> Running describe-key (C-h k) shows that the bindings were
> successful. And these bindings move point as they should, but for some
> reason it sets the mark at my original position, and gives me a
> highlighted region as I move the point.

I'm unable to reproduce this; even with shift-select-mode on. Note that
this-command-keys-shift-translated says:

   Shift-translation occurs when there is no binding for the key sequence
   as entered [...]

Does this happen if you start from emacs -Q?