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24.1.50; mouse selection followed by cursor movment to extend selection

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 11364 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11364: 24.1.50; mouse selection followed by cursor movment
 to extend selection
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2022 10:20:52 +0100

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> In Emacs versions prior to Emacs 23 an important feature was the
> ability to extend or reduce the active region by moving the cursor.
> E.g C-SPC followed by C-f.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

These commands now work by hitting holding down the Shift key while
moving point -- then the region is extended or reduced.

So I don't think there's anything to do here, and I'm closing this bug
report.

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