> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 12:29:46 +0200
> Cc: Jay Belanger <jay.p.belanger@gmail.com>, Brief Busters <dgutov@yandex.ru>,
>       Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com>, Emacs-Devel devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>

>
> But you still can't use arrow keys etc for selecting text from default
> Emacs, or? That is a very important use of the arrow keys.

If you mean hold Shift and move by arrow keys, then this selects text
for quite some time now.