Re: position on changing defaults?

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Juri Linkov wrote:
> > > > > - 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?

org-mode has already support for changing this, see the variable

  `org-replace-disputed-keys'