From: Davis Herring <herring@lanl.gov>
To: k0ga@shike2.com
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Movement commands and caps lock
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 08:34:06 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <502BB35E.4070100@lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120815062916.GA6844@shike2.com>
> 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
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-15 14:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-12 17:24 Movement commands and caps lock Roberto E. Vargas Caballero
2012-08-15 3:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-15 6:29 ` Roberto E. Vargas Caballero
2012-08-15 14:34 ` Davis Herring [this message]
2012-08-15 14:36 ` Andreas Schwab
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