Re: Yet another discussion on improving the first time user experience

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 12:29:46 +0200
> Cc: Jay Belanger <address@hidden>, Brief Busters <address@hidden>, 
>       Pascal Bourguignon <address@hidden>, Emacs-Devel devel <address@hidden>
> 
> But you still can't use arrow keys etc for selecting text from default
> Emacs, or? That is a very important use of the arrow keys.

If you mean hold Shift and move by arrow keys, then this selects text
for quite some time now.