[PATCH] Re: org-metashiftleft/right should honor org-support-shift-select

[Ihor Radchenko]

Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita2@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> on macOS option-shift-left / right extend the selection by one word.
> Emacs by default binds meta-shift-left / right in a way that is
> compatible with the system shortcuts. But org-mode interferes with
> these bindings even when org-support-shift-select is t. OTOH, an
> effort has been done to support shift selection in
> org-shiftcontrolleft / right. The problem is that macOS uses option
> instead of control to achieve selection by word.

Can you test the attached patch? I am not using MacOS.

Best,
Ihor

>From 77312a266c200a65a4a8cf63040e32357304396c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2021 21:24:52 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Make org-shiftmetaleft/org-shiftmetaright honour shift-select
 on MacOS

* lisp/org.el (org-shiftmetaleft):
(org-shiftmetaright): Honour shift-select bound to meta-arrow on
MacOS when `org-support-shift-select' is non-nil.

Fixes 
https://orgmode.org/list/CAEOO5Tdg6sdjNfAg=J_DVQ50xx1oxaFaVyyYnda6O_-t3hG2jg@mail.gmail.com
---
 lisp/org.el | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el
index 048abb142..a86ad301f 100644
--- a/lisp/org.el
+++ b/lisp/org.el
@@ -17378,6 +17378,10 @@ (defun org-shiftmetaleft ()
 individual commands for more information."
   (interactive)
   (cond
+   ((and (eq system-type 'darwin)
+         (or (eq org-support-shift-select 'always)
+             (and org-support-shift-select (org-region-active-p))))
+    (org-call-for-shift-select 'backward-char))
    ((run-hook-with-args-until-success 'org-shiftmetaleft-hook))
    ((org-at-table-p) (call-interactively 'org-table-delete-column))
    ((org-at-heading-p) (call-interactively 'org-promote-subtree))
@@ -17394,6 +17398,10 @@ (defun org-shiftmetaright ()
 individual commands for more information."
   (interactive)
   (cond
+   ((and (eq system-type 'darwin)
+         (or (eq org-support-shift-select 'always)
+             (and org-support-shift-select (org-region-active-p))))
+    (org-call-for-shift-select 'forward-char))
    ((run-hook-with-args-until-success 'org-shiftmetaright-hook))
    ((org-at-table-p) (call-interactively 'org-table-insert-column))
    ((org-at-heading-p) (call-interactively 'org-demote-subtree))
-- 
2.32.0