bug#1958: 23.0.60; org-mode does not honour shift-select-mode

[Lennart Borgman]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> wrote:
> Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:
>
>> thank you for bringing this to my attention.  However, it not
>> clear to me how modifying the interactive form would solve the
>> issue that in Org, S-curser keys are used for different fuctionality?
>
> Ah OK.  I didn't investigate carefully enough.  I see now that Org binds
> S-arrow keys to commands that don't have anything to do with cursor
> motion.
>
> I don't think consistency demands that S-arrow perform text selection in
> other major modes.  So, unless you wish to change it, we can leave this
> one alone.


Is not this at the same level as any other key binding that should
have a global impact? As I understand it there has been a long fight
to get key bindings consistent. Wouldn't it be unfortunate to step off
that road now?