From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Frank Schmitt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: marking using shifted arrow keys (CUA mode) Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:36:21 +0200 Organization: Hamme net, kren mer och nimmi Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1184661414 5572 80.91.229.12 (17 Jul 2007 08:36:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:36:54 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 17 10:36:53 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IAiY9-0003jN-Bt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:36:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IAiY8-0008EL-Qf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:36:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IAiY4-0008DN-JZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:36:48 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IAiY3-0008Cr-PA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:36:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IAiY3-0008Cg-JA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:36:47 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IAiY3-0007iw-56 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:36:47 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IAiXt-00038e-1c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:36:37 +0200 Original-Received: from vpnclfun01.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.160.32]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:36:37 +0200 Original-Received: from ich by vpnclfun01.uni-koblenz.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:36:37 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: vpnclfun01.uni-koblenz.de X-Face: :EL9TzGRN){7|oE2~xQ8Q(VjpjsXgX$~gi&rYD5J5p)$w\Thdl~v:7h`/n)J!8nXT%_+Wj6}@EHM8}QbA(9nX-wrQ:ch1%DauV[?kFasXUcnL#+"K8zOx&$@/M'/}, q-eztaJra1|?C+p$h\2XnK-HB"8_U List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:74964 Archived-At: Reiner Steib writes: > for a colleague, I was looking for an option to mark text using > shifted arrow keys (, ) 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): No need for cua-mode, there's pc-selection-mode, which does just this. -- Did you ever realize how much text fits in eighty columns? If you now consider that a signature usually consists of up to four lines, this gives you enough space to spread a tremendous amount of information with your messages. So seize this opportunity and don't waste your signature with bullshit nobody will read.