On Friday, August 12, 2011, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> PS: You'd also have to sign some copyright paperwork, of course.

It's up to you whether it should be in the core or not.  Just remember that those missing ^s need to be added in picture.el for shift-selection to continue to work.

Either way it'll have to wait for copyright assignment.  How do I start that process?  etc/CONTRIBUTE just says to email emacs-devel.

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-PJ