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26.3; Minor bug in (emacs) Shift Selection

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 62862 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#62862: 26.3; Minor bug in (emacs) Shift Selection
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2023 13:49:24 -0700

severity 62862 wishlist
thanks

Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> "shift-selection" isn't a noun or a programming name.  It's a noun
> phrase, and should be written as "shift selection".  In particular,
> index entry "shift-selection" should also be replaced by "shift
> selection".  It might be good to also add a glossary entry for "shift selection".

I think you're probably right here, but we have many 114 occurrences of
"shift-selection" in our tree.  I think it doesn't make sense to fix one
without fixing the others, and then you'd need to be careful because
some of them might refer to the symbol `shift-select'.

So ultimately, I'm not sure it's worth spending time on.  I guess we
could accept a patch.

Eli, what do you think?

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