Re: marking using shifted arrow keys (CUA mode)

[Frank Schmitt]

Reiner Steib <address@hidden> writes:

> for a colleague, I was looking for an option to mark text using
> shifted arrow keys (<S-right>, <C-S-right>) in Emacs 22.1.
> I tried `i arrow', `i shift' in the manual without success.  Finally I
> found it in (info "(emacs)CUA Bindings") because I presumed that it
> might be a feature of CUA mode.  I don't think that a user expects to
> find it in a node under "Killing and Moving Text".  Maybe a hint and a
> cross reference in (info "(emacs)Marking Objects") would be useful.
> And I think we should add an index entry (maybe like this one):

No need for cua-mode, there's pc-selection-mode, which does just this.

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