Selecting text with shift modifier

Selecting text with shift modifier

[saneman]

Is there someway to select text in emacs like in windows where you use 
Shift and one of the arrows or End, Home, Pg up, Pg down?

I have reconfigured to:

(global-set-key [(shift up)] 'set-mark-command)

But how do I make it work with all the above modifiers (down, left, 
right, pg up, pg down etc)?

I would also like the operation to be canceled when shift is not pressed.

Re: Selecting text with shift modifier

[Uday S Reddy]

"saneman" <asdfsdf@asd.com> wrote in message 
news:fpp7nf$5sh$1@news.net.uni-c.dk...
> Is there someway to select text in emacs like in windows where you use 
> Shift and one of the arrows or End, Home, Pg up, Pg down?

Hi, perhaps you should start by looking at the NT Emacs FAQ

      http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html

It refers to something called CUA package which might do what you want.

Cheers,
Uday Reddy

Re: Selecting text with shift modifier

[Thierry Volpiatto]

saneman <asdfsdf@asd.com> writes:

> Is there someway to select text in emacs like in windows where you use
> Shift and one of the arrows or End, Home, Pg up, Pg down?
>
> I have reconfigured to:
>
> (global-set-key [(shift up)] 'set-mark-command)
>
> But how do I make it work with all the above modifiers (down, left,
> right, pg up, pg down etc)?
>
> I would also like the operation to be canceled when shift is not pressed.
>

May be have a look at CUA mode
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A + Thierry
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