Re: marking using shifted arrow keys (CUA mode)

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

  > Hi,
  > 
  > for a colleague, I was looking for an option to mark text using
  > shifted arrow keys (<S-right>, <C-S-right>) in Emacs 22.1.
  > I tried `i arrow', `i shift' in the manual without success.  Finally I
  > found it in (info "(emacs)CUA Bindings") because I presumed that it
  > might be a feature of CUA mode.  I don't think that a user expects to
  > find it in a node under "Killing and Moving Text".  Maybe a hint and a
  > cross reference in (info "(emacs)Marking Objects") would be useful.
  > And I think we should add an index entry (maybe like this one):
  > 
  > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
  > --- killing.texi	15 Apr 2007 10:54:28 +0200	1.60
  > +++ killing.texi	16 Jul 2007 20:26:36 +0200	
  > @@ -650,6 +650,7 @@
  >  However, if you don't want to override these bindings in Emacs at all,
  >  set @code{cua-enable-cua-keys} to @code{nil}.
  >  
  > +@cindex marking, using shifted arrow keys
  >    In CUA mode, using @kbd{Shift} together with the movement keys
  >  activates and highlights the region over which they move.  The
  >  standard (unshifted) movement keys deactivate the mark, and typed text
  > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
  > 
  > Additionally, it's a little bit strange that the user has to enable
  > `cua-mode' and disable (set `cua-enable-cua-keys' to `nil') the most
  > prominent CUA feature to get "marking using shifted arrow keys".  Did
  > I miss something?  Is there another possibility?


See cua-selection-mode