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

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Message #116 received at 1958 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

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: Re: bug#1958: 23.0.60; org-mode does not honour shift-select-mode
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:46:26 +0100

This bug is now closed, do I need to do something to mark it as such?

I have now checked in a patch that allows users to
set a variable to get shift-selection working in most or
all of Org.

But the default remains to be the old behavior, because
it seems to may that automatically doing shift-selection
in some places but not in other will be confusing to users.

The solution is now that an attempt to do shift selection
will cause an error message with a pointer to the variable
that needs to be configured.  In this way, users can make
an informed decision.

- 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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