Subject: Re: bug#50038: Permanent shift-select-mode

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2021 12:36:20 +0300

> From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2021 11:37:48 +0300
> 
> > And finally, a question: is it enough to have this as a user option?
> > That is, what if the user wants this only temporarily, for the next
> > sequence of commands that extend the region?  Should we perhaps have a
> > better solution for that use case?  More generally, perhaps this
> > feature is almost always wanted only for a sequence of commands, never
> > globally for extended periods of time?  In that case, a user option is
> > not the best solution; it is better to have some minor mode that could
> > be turned on and off with a simple key sequence.
> 
> It would be very surprising if someone might want something more complicated.

So you, for example, will use this value at all times?

> This patch also adds a NEWS entry:

Thanks, LGTM.