Re: pc-selection-mode and custom

[Eli Zaretskii]

On 25 Mar 2001, Alex Schroeder wrote:

> GNU Emacs 20.7.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit) of Sat Jun 24 2000 on snail
> 
> I put the following in a file called init:
> 
> (custom-set-variables
>  '(pc-selection-mode t))
> 
> I start Emacs like this:
> 
> emacs -q -l init
> 
> I check the variable:
> 
> pc-selection-mode's value is 
> t
> 
> I check (describe-key (kbd "S-<left>")):
> 
> "S-left is undefined"
> 
> Therefore, the variable gets set, but pc-selection-mode is not run.

The doc string of the variable pc-selection-mode says this:

  You must modify via \\[customize] for this variable to have an effect.

Did the OP turn on this mode via Customize?  The sentence "I put the 
following in a file called init:" suggests that the customization was 
done manually.  Furthermore, ``a file called init'' seems to indicate 
that the customization is not in the user's .emacs file, but in another 
file called literally `init'.