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.

Once again then: I really prefer consistency. What do you mean with
"other major modes"? I really thought that S-arrow should perform
selection in all major modes since it is a very basic editing command.