From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Davis Herring Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Movement commands and caps lock Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 08:34:06 -0600 Organization: XCP-1 Message-ID: <502BB35E.4070100@lanl.gov> References: <20120812172424.GB9357@shike2.com> <20120815062916.GA6844@shike2.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1345041263 20927 80.91.229.3 (15 Aug 2012 14:34:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 14:34:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: k0ga@shike2.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 15 16:34:24 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T1efs-0008Ny-OI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:34:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52034 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T1efr-0005OD-PM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 10:34:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:41056) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T1efg-0004rU-S6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 10:34:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T1eff-0003zJ-UR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 10:34:08 -0400 Original-Received: from proofpoint5.lanl.gov ([204.121.3.53]:40725) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T1eff-0003zF-Kq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 10:34:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailrelay1.lanl.gov (mailrelay1.lanl.gov [128.165.4.101]) by proofpoint5.lanl.gov (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q7FEY6Qh021613; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 08:34:06 -0600 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mailrelay1.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6834E40B8B; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 08:34:06 -0600 (MDT) X-NIE-2-Virus-Scanner: amavisd-new at mailrelay1.lanl.gov Original-Received: from [128.165.123.145] (xray-r10.lanl.gov [128.165.123.145]) by mailrelay1.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCB3FE40B74; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 08:34:06 -0600 (MDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110717 Lanikai/3.1.11 In-Reply-To: <20120815062916.GA6844@shike2.com> X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.7.7855, 1.0.260, 0.0.0000 definitions=2012-08-15_02:2012-08-15, 2012-08-15, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-Received-From: 204.121.3.53 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:152552 Archived-At: > This is something logical, but why the mark behaviour?. Emacs translate > it from C-S-b to C-b, so the expected result should be backward-char, not > set-mark and backward-char. Because (to follow CUA editing style) shift+motion nowadays sets the mark and then moves so as to "drag" the region over the range of point's motion. You can customize `shift-select-mode'. Davis -- This product is sold by volume, not by mass. If it appears too dense or too sparse, it is because mass-energy conversion has occurred during shipping.