Re: Shift selection using interactive spec

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

David Kastrup wrote:
> If CUA-mode chooses to provide an additional futzing interface for
> meddling with external packages, this does not preclude us from using a
> proper interface within Emacs itself.

David, thanks for the example you provided earlier of how to change the 
interactive form. However to me it looks like this can not be used 
directly. It is too complicated.

To handle this you would perhaps write simple functions or even a 
defcustom that modifies the interactive forms for those functions that 
you want.

Maybe a first step would be to agree on a set of functions to modify and 
read the "move" information? Whether this modifies the interactive form 
property or some separate property does not IMO make significant 
difference. The main thing is that it must be easy for the user to 
handle this.

BTW, I think you are mixing two subjects: how to store the "move" 
information and where to attach this information. I agree that it might 
sometimes be good to have properties attached to the variable and to the 
function instead of the symbol.