Re: Shift-movement selection

[David Kastrup]

"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:

> Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>> Why not introduce an after-move-hook, somewhat akin to after-change-hook?
>> Possibly as a normal hook, possibly one where each function takes a
>> single parameter, the old value of point.  
>
> This is rather similar to what I proposed in anohter message (the
> post-post-command hook), but I would prefer a more general hook. BTW
> is there a way to check if the last command was indeed a move in the
> current buffer?
>
> And, for the turn on of the region a pre-pre-command hook could be used.
>
>> Assuming Emacs knows whether the shift key is currently depressed (it
>> does, doesn't it, by looking at the key sequence?) the after-move-hook
>> could be ideal place to deal with "shift"-movement actions.
>
> Is not that too late?

I have not properly followed the discussion.  Has anybody proposed or
rejected adding some letter to the interactive string to mark
shift-sensitive movement commands?  It would be reasonably easy to
interpret this in C-h k and its ilk.

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