Re: Shift selection using interactive spec

[Chong Yidong]

martin rudalics <address@hidden> writes:

> Currently I do not find a single way to handle the following scenario
> reliably: (1) Select some "region" of text, (2) scroll the window the
> text appears in such that `window-point' gets relocated, (3) perform an
> action on the region selected in step (1).  Everything I tried so far
> (transient-mark-mode, mouse-drag-region, delete-selection-mode,
> pc-selection-mode, CUA-mode) failed.  Any plans to handle this?

There are no plans for this, and I don't see how it could be
accomplished.  (For certain such purposes, you might be able to use
registers to do what you want.)