no selection mode

[Onanymous]

Hi, I am kinda very fresh emacs user, and I was quite happy to find
that standard emacs keybindings are not enjoyed by everyone. So I like
the idea of ergonomic shortcuts, but I am totally missing selection
mode. Something for what Shift key is actually used for quite often.
What about ctrl+otherkeys, would move the same as alt+otherkeys, but
selecting from the current position?

[Xah Lee]

hi,

if you do Alt+SPACE then any cursor movement would select, in
particular, most useful to me are Alt+U and Alt+O. But you probably
knew that?

Holding down SHIFT then press arrow keys also select as in common
editor behavior.

another way to select is press Alt+8, which select current word.
Pressing again should select larger semantic unit... for human
language texts such as English, it would be word, sentence, paragraph,
whole buffer. But this is not implemented yet.

emacs having lots of other commands. If we use Ctrl+key for selection,
that would take out a lot control key shortcut spots with I J K L and
U O, and it'd conflict with standard ones such as open, save, save as,
new, find, etc. (because we support both qwerty and dvorak)

Xah

[Слава]

> hi,
> if you do Alt+SPACE then any cursor movement would select, in
> particular, most useful to me are Alt+U and Alt+O. But you probably
> knew that?

Ha! I did not. I told you I am new to emacs. :) That is exactly the
thing I was missing. Thank you.