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29.0.50; C-<arrow> selection broken by translate-upper-case-key-bindings

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
Cc: spacibba <at> aol.com, 53452 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#53452: 29.0.50; C-<arrow> selection broken by translate-upper-case-key-bindings
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 14:38:39 +0200

> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: Ergus <spacibba <at> aol.com>,  53452 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 11:54:19 +0100
> 
>     Eli> It sounds like it cannot work in that case, because shift-select
>     Eli> _requires_ that a key was shift-translated, and setting
>     Eli> translate-upper-case-key-bindings to nil disables that translation.
> 
> The docstring says:
> "If non-nil, interpret upper case keys as lower case (when applicable)."
> 
> which strongly implies that this only applies to letters, not keys
> like <right>

That's a wrong impression, the translation applies to all the keys.

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