From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uwe Brauer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: shift+left/right arrow cannot be bound in Emacs Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 19:26:27 +0200 Message-ID: <87613c29q4.fsf@mat.ucm.es> References: <87fv2huii8.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <87egi1dk0g.fsf@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1442251630 12263 80.91.229.3 (14 Sep 2015 17:27:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 17:27:10 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 14 19:27:00 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1ZbXWt-0004da-HO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 19:26:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42423 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZbXWs-0005oX-Vg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 13:26:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60787) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZbXWh-0005o7-Dj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 13:26:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZbXWU-0004Na-US for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 13:26:47 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:56342) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZbXWU-0004NV-MG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 13:26:34 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZbXWS-00040H-In for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 19:26:32 +0200 Original-Received: from gilgamesch.quim.ucm.es ([147.96.12.99]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 19:26:32 +0200 Original-Received: from oub by gilgamesch.quim.ucm.es with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 19:26:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: gilgamesch.quim.ucm.es Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5JZh1xJnpQ1DXtkJdTk0rBwEqPc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:107200 Archived-At: > Uwe Brauer writes: > How are you triying to bind shift+left ? > In my Emacs 25.0.50.1 on Kubuntu 15.04 asking for the current binding > with C-h k shift+left shows > (translated from ) runs the command left-char (found in > ... > What says on your system? The same, I think I begin to understand, the reason is that shift+arrows is used for setting the mark (as in MS windows) so it might not be possible to bind these key combination.