Re: position on changing defaults?

[Juri Linkov]

>>>> - selection with Shift-arrow keys
>>>
>>> I think this would be a good default.  If someone is willing to make a
>>> patch that refactors this code from cua-mode into simple.el, it would
>>> be worth considering.
>>
>> Unfortunately, I see no way of implementing this in simple.el without
>> using pre-command-hook and post-command-hook.  It seems this can be
>> implemented only in C in the function that reads characters.
>
> On top of this, Shift-arrow keys are already in use in org-mode.

This is not a reason to make Emacs unfriendly to newbies that expect
Shift-arrow keys to work like in other programs.  Could you change
these keys in org-mode to e.g. Meta-arrows or something?

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/