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From: Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: shift+left/right arrow cannot be bound in Emacs
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 14:55:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mt753u$imc$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1119.1442251609.19560.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

>> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> 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
>
>> <left> (translated from <S-left>) 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


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-09-14 18:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-14 15:29 shift+left/right arrow cannot be bound in Emacs Uwe Brauer
2015-09-14 15:35 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-14 16:48 ` Óscar Fuentes
2015-09-14 17:26   ` Uwe Brauer
     [not found]   ` <mailman.1119.1442251609.19560.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-09-14 18:55     ` Dan Espen [this message]
2015-09-14 19:47     ` B. T. Raven
2015-09-14 21:52     ` Javier
2015-09-15 23:40 ` Emanuel Berg

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