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23.0.60; org-mode does not honour shift-select-mode

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From: Carsten Dominik <dominik <at> science.uva.nl>
To: Andreas Amann <andreas.amann <at> tyndall.ie>
Cc: 1958 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
        Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>,
        Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>,
        Carsten Dominik <dominik <at> science.uva.nl>
Subject: bug#1958: 23.0.60; org-mode does not honour shift-select-mode
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:32:08 +0100

Hi Andreas,

something like this could be done, but would that not be more confusing?

- Carsten

On Jan 23, 2009, at 1:34 PM, Andreas Amann wrote:

>
> May I just add one little aspect to this:
>
> Note that in org-mode the shift-arrow keys only work, when the  
> cursor is on an item line
> (i.e. one starting with at least one "*")! Otherwise the shift-arrow  
> keys simply give the error
> "Not in an item", and blocks a potentially useful binding without  
> real benefit.
>
> Would it therefore be possible to only switch on the org-specific  
> shift-arrow binding on item lines,
> where they are only useful anyhow?  I.e. instead of printing the  
> error message, one could fall back
> to whatever the standard binding outside org-mode is. This would be  
> fairly intuitive from a user
> point of view in my opinion. The only complication might be to  
> decide, what should happen, when
> shift-selecting from a non-item line into an item line.
>
> Andreas

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