Re: shift+left/right arrow cannot be bound in Emacs

["B. T. Raven" <btraven@nihilo.net>]

On 9/14/2015 12:26 PM, Uwe Brauer wrote:
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>> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
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>> How are you triying to bind shift+left ?
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>> In my Emacs 25.0.50.1 on Kubuntu 15.04 asking for the current binding
>> with C-h k shift+left shows
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>> <left> (translated from <S-left>) runs the command left-char (found in
>> ...
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>> What says on your system?
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> 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.
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I get the same result as Dan: no problem. Try:
(global-set-key [(shift up)] (lambda () (interactive) (insert  ?¶ )))
(global-set-key [(shift down)] (lambda () (interactive)  (insert  ?® )))

The reason shift left is translated to bare left arrow is that there is 
no current binding for
(global-set-key [(shift up)]  )))
(global-set-key [(shift down)]  )))

Ed