Re: Shift-movement selection

[Stefan Monnier]

>> (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