Re: Shift-movement selection

[Richard Stallman]

    > AFAICS, such an approach would make deselection much less likely to work
    > consistently:  the way it's _supposed_ to work is that any pretty much
    > any command except for the special shifted versions should cause
    > deactivation -- and in emacs that's pretty much _every command_.
    > So to make it work "correctly", you need to modify all commands in
    > emacs!  [yikes!]

    Most commands already deactivate the mark.  So which ones would be left?
    Do they matter?

Ordinary Emacs cursor motion commands such as C-f should not normally
deactivate the mark.  That would be a painfully incompatible change.