Re: Shift-movement selection

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> Anything that doesn't modify the buffer -- e.g. all movement commands.
>
> Supposedly these will be changed to use the new function, so they will
> explicitly deactivate the mark if the mark was activated with shift and
> the movement is then performed without the shift.
>
> So again, which ones would be left?

Are you serious?  You intend to modify _every_ movement command in
Emacs, and require that users modify whatever commands they have
written?   You intend to do this when a simple, clean, and more general
solution exists, with no apparent downsides?

Why?

Maybe for activating shift-selection, annotating commands is the  best we
can do, but it's very clear that for deactivating it, we can do better.

-Miles

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