Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2011 19:26:58 +0200
> 
> However, there is no reason that straight visual movement when using
> shift-selection would interfere with selection as such: you just can't
> expect that the marked region is visually contiguous.  The size of the
> selection will jump when crossing visually from L2R and R2L.
> 
> But I see no logical problem with that.

The problems with this are not logical, they are with implementing it
(both the movement itself and the resulting selection and highlight).
Patches are welcome.