bug#39545: 26.3; C-S-a gets translated to C-a in message-mode

bug#39545: 26.3; C-S-a gets translated to C-a in message-mode

[kuba.orlik--- via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors]

1. M-x message-mode
2. Enter some text
3. Press C-S-a

The point moves to the beggining of the line, but doesn't select the
text along the way, as C-S-a usually does


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bug#39545: 26.3; C-S-a gets translated to C-a in message-mode

[Eric Abrahamsen]

kuba.orlik--- via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> 1. M-x message-mode
> 2. Enter some text
> 3. Press C-S-a
>
> The point moves to the beggining of the line, but doesn't select the
> text along the way, as C-S-a usually does

C-S-a doesn't "usually" do that -- maybe it's a part of `cua-mode', and
that's not getting enabled in `message-mode'? That's a guess, but if
it's a correct guess, you should be able to figure out why `cua-mode'
isn't enabled in message composition buffers.

bug#39545: 26.3; C-S-a gets translated to C-a in message-mode

[Noam Postavsky]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> kuba.orlik--- via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
> text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> 1. M-x message-mode
>> 2. Enter some text
>> 3. Press C-S-a
>>
>> The point moves to the beggining of the line, but doesn't select the
>> text along the way, as C-S-a usually does
>
> C-S-a doesn't "usually" do that -- maybe it's a part of `cua-mode', and
> that's not getting enabled in `message-mode'?

It's enabled by transient-mark-mode which is turned on by default.  I
think the problem is that in message-mode C-a is bound to
message-beginning-of-line which misses the "^" in its interactive
string.

bug#39545: 26.3; C-S-a gets translated to C-a in message-mode

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
> Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 10:36:02 -0800
> Cc: kuba.orlik@sealcode.org
> 
> > 1. M-x message-mode
> > 2. Enter some text
> > 3. Press C-S-a
> >
> > The point moves to the beggining of the line, but doesn't select the
> > text along the way, as C-S-a usually does
> 
> C-S-a doesn't "usually" do that -- maybe it's a part of `cua-mode'

No, it's a normal Emacs "shift-selection" feature: any cursor motion
command (C-a in this case) typed with the Shift key held will select
the text it moves across.  You can see it in *scratch* in "emacs -Q",
even.

> and that's not getting enabled in `message-mode'?

No, I think it's because in message-mode C-a is bound to
message-beginning-of-line, and that doesn't have "^" in its
interactive spec, like beginning-of-line does.

bug#39545: 26.3; C-S-a gets translated to C-a in message-mode

[Eric Abrahamsen]

On 02/10/20 21:13 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
>> Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 10:36:02 -0800
>> Cc: kuba.orlik@sealcode.org
>> 
>> > 1. M-x message-mode
>> > 2. Enter some text
>> > 3. Press C-S-a
>> >
>> > The point moves to the beggining of the line, but doesn't select the
>> > text along the way, as C-S-a usually does
>> 
>> C-S-a doesn't "usually" do that -- maybe it's a part of `cua-mode'
>
> No, it's a normal Emacs "shift-selection" feature: any cursor motion
> command (C-a in this case) typed with the Shift key held will select
> the text it moves across.  You can see it in *scratch* in "emacs -Q",
> even.
>
>> and that's not getting enabled in `message-mode'?
>
> No, I think it's because in message-mode C-a is bound to
> message-beginning-of-line, and that doesn't have "^" in its
> interactive spec, like beginning-of-line does.

Oops, thanks to both of you for the correction! I tested in *scratch*
and saw "C-e (translated from C-S-e) runs the command move-end-of-line"
and checked no further.

Maybe we can see what Lars thinks about changing the interactive spec
for the message function.

bug#39545: 26.3; C-S-a gets translated to C-a in message-mode

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> and that's not getting enabled in `message-mode'?
>
> No, I think it's because in message-mode C-a is bound to
> message-beginning-of-line, and that doesn't have "^" in its
> interactive spec, like beginning-of-line does.

I've now added this in Emacs 28.

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