Subject: Re: bug#49544: 26.3; shift arrow command runaway

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2021 18:41:09 +0300

> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2021 14:15:06 +0000
> From:  "Kunz, Chris" via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <[email-masked]>
> 
> When I try to select a region using shift+arrow, if I hold the key combination down for a second or two it will
> continue selecting the text after the keys are released. It appears to enter an infinite loop and only stops after
> reaching the end (or beginning) of the buffer.
> 
>  
> 
> The arrow key alone does not show the same behavior. This is reproducible across major modes.

Is this some "accessibility" feature of your system, perhaps?  There's
no such feature in Emacs, AFAIK.