From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Espen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: shift+left/right arrow cannot be bound in Emacs Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 14:55:43 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: 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 1442257218 7212 80.91.229.3 (14 Sep 2015 19:00:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 19:00:18 +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 21:00:18 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 1ZbYzB-0003nF-A8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 21:00:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43047 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZbYzA-0001Wr-Pn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 15:00:16 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="ad871ce417d1fb2ea3c87e49e48c0ae1"; logging-data="19148"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19x7DG/15qXjljXK7gsY6KA9ZLOHn/niTk=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VLR3snVZWDKXH3cJK8mAbw3dTJQ= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:214917 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:107201 Archived-At: Uwe Brauer writes: >> 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. Works for me: (define-key global-map [(shift left)] 'xxxx) (Linux) -- Dan Espen