Re: Shift on console

[Robert J. Chassell]

Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> asked

    Where "console" = ????

/dev/tty2, also known by the Debian folks and others as a `virtual
console'.  It does not have X or any other windowing system and is
what we once called a `terminal'.

    This problem is going to become really problematic if "shift-movement
    selection" becomes the Emacs default".

Perhaps others expect a graphical windowing environment in all
circumstances.  

When I SSH to gnu.org and log into it with an RXVT shell on my local
machine, and invoke Emacs on fp.gnu.org, I can run C-M-S-v
(scroll-other-window-down), that is to say, the shift key succeeds;
but when I do the same in a plain console -- no RXVT shell -- I
cannot.

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