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Re: Shift-movement selection
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Shift-movement selection |
Date: |
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 23:37:27 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
>> (defun activate-on-shift-selecting-movement ()
>> (if (this-command-keys-are-shifted-p)
>> (progn
>> (setq shift-selecting-movement t)
>> (unless mark-active (set-mark)))
>> (when shift-selecting-movement
>> (setq shift-selecting-movement nil)
>> (when mark-active (deactivate-mark)))))
>>
>> and then call it from wherever it's considered useful
>> (e.g. forward-char, next-line, ...).
> 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?
Stefan
- Re: deactivation in "shift-select" mode, (continued)
- Re: deactivation in "shift-select" mode, Miles Bader, 2008/03/07
- Re: deactivation in "shift-select" mode, Kim F. Storm, 2008/03/08
- Re: position on changing defaults?, Richard Stallman, 2008/03/09
- Re: position on changing defaults?, Miles Bader, 2008/03/09
- Shift-movement selection (was: position on changing defaults?), Stefan Monnier, 2008/03/09
- Re: Shift-movement selection, Miles Bader, 2008/03/09
- Re: Shift-movement selection, Kim F. Storm, 2008/03/09
- Re: Shift-movement selection, Miles Bader, 2008/03/09
- Re: Shift-movement selection, Stefan Monnier, 2008/03/10
- Re: Shift-movement selection, Stefan Monnier, 2008/03/10
- Re: Shift-movement selection,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: Shift-movement selection, Miles Bader, 2008/03/10
- Re: Shift-movement selection, Stefan Monnier, 2008/03/10
- Re: Shift-movement selection, Kim F. Storm, 2008/03/10
- Re: Shift-movement selection, Stefan Monnier, 2008/03/10
- Re: Shift-movement selection, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/03/10
- Re: Shift-movement selection, Richard Stallman, 2008/03/11
- Re: Shift-movement selection, Stefan Monnier, 2008/03/11
- Re: Shift-movement selection, Richard Stallman, 2008/03/11
- Re: Shift-movement selection, Kim F. Storm, 2008/03/12
- Re: Shift-movement selection, Richard Stallman, 2008/03/12