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

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 1958 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#1958: 23.0.60; org-mode does not honour shift-select-mode
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:14:18 -0500

Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com> writes:

>> I don't think consistency demands that S-arrow perform text selection in
>> other major modes.  So, unless you wish to change it, we can leave this
>> one alone.
>
> Once again then: I really prefer consistency. What do you mean with
> "other major modes"? I really thought that S-arrow should perform
> selection in all major modes since it is a very basic editing command.

All things being equal, it's nice to have consistency, but the needs of
individual major modes can outweigh this.  To give another example,
eshell rebinds the up and down arrows to move around in the shell
command history, decoupling the usual equivalence of C-p/up and
C-n/down.

I don't use Org mode myself, but since Carsten, the package maintainer,
appears to have given some thought into this, there is no harm deferring
to him.

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