Re: position on changing defaults?

[Richard Stallman]

    Maybe a much more radical surgery would be easier. How about having the 
    convention that whenever a movement is bound to a shifted key then this 
    should activate the region? If the movement is bound to a non-shifted 
    key then it should deactivate the region.

It is better to have the keymaps control what keys do.  Let's not
hard-wire any keys or modifiers if we can avoid it.