Re: Shift-movement selection

[Stefan Monnier]

>     Or am I misunderstanding? Do you say that only commands that have this 
>     particular `interactive' spec should activate/deactivate the mark 
>     (depending on whether the shift key was used or not)?

> In general it is not clean for a command's behavior to depend on the
> keys that invoked it.  A given command should do a given thing;
> then users can make any key do that thing, by binding it to that command.

But the feature we're talking about is specifically trying to change the
behavior of those commands depending on whether they're triggered by
a key with or without a shift modifier.  I.e. it's inherent to the
desired functionality.


        Stefan