From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: "N. Jackson" <gentleundercurrent@gmail.com>
Cc: 5753@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5753: something, something, org-mode, shift-select, something
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 12:05:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANbX364YYzzUSrrTaDHMJdm5jHYE70am0SCQH_R9QAwT=vLYHg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 2:25 AM, N. Jackson <gentleundercurrent@gmail.com>wrote:
> The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
> that has been posted to gnu.emacs.bug as well.
>
> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
> > Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> Shift-select in cua-mode does not work in org-mode although
> >> org-replace-disputed-keys is t, org-disputed-keys are set for shift
> >> arrow keys and org-support-shift-select is always
> >
> > Is this problem still present in Emacs 24.3?
>
> Naturally I can't answer for the OP (and I don't know about disputed
> keys) but I can report that in general this problem persists in Emacs
> 24.3.
>
> On GNU Emacs 24.3.1 [1], shift select does not work in org mode. I'm not
> certain this is a bug, as my understanding is that the org authors did
> not design it to work with shift select?
>
> In any case, I use a very simple workaround which makes shift select
> work just fine in org mode; I've never had any problems with it. It
> looks like this (Note: It is of unknown provenance, aside from the
> attribution in the comment.):
>
> ;; This snippit from jisang-yoo on reddit to enable shift select in org
> ;; mode when cua-mode is on.
> (eval-after-load "org"
> '(progn
> (eval-after-load "cua-base"
> '(progn
> (defadvice org-call-for-shift-select (before
> org-call-for-shift-select-cua activate)
> (if (and cua-mode
> org-support-shift-select (not (use-region-p)))
> (cua-set-mark)))))))
> ;; End jisang-yoo snippit
>
> With this in my org settings, I have no problems with shift select
> except that you cannot start a selection on a timestamp (because shift
> with cursor keys adjusts timestamps), but I've learnt to automatically
> start my selection from the end of the line above the timestamp so I
> don't have any problems.
>
> I hope this information is of some use.
>
> [1] GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.8.2) of
> 2013-08-14 on buildvm-15.phx2.fedoraproject.org
>
>
> Thanks Jason. I can't test now myself.
I think this problem illustrates very well why cua-mode must be made a
first class citizen in Emacs. Without that problems like this are showing
up for beginners.
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[not found] <e01d8a51003221746i42766220y6936e98a85f78234@mail.gmail.com>
2014-02-03 0:21 ` bug#5753: something, something, org-mode, shift-select, something Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-09 14:06 ` Bastien
2014-02-09 14:12 ` Lennart Borgman
2014-02-09 14:29 ` Bastien
2014-02-09 21:45 ` N. Jackson
2014-02-10 7:35 ` Bastien
2014-02-10 21:29 ` N. Jackson
2014-02-11 2:22 ` N. Jackson
2014-02-11 16:29 ` Bastien
2014-02-11 17:12 ` N. Jackson
2014-02-11 17:20 ` Bastien
2014-02-11 21:01 ` Lennart Borgman
[not found] ` <mailman.13581.1391387010.10748.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-02-09 1:25 ` N. Jackson
2014-02-09 11:05 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2014-02-09 11:08 ` Lennart Borgman
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