Re: shift+left/right arrow cannot be bound in Emacs

[Dan Espen]

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

>> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
>
>> How are you triying to bind shift+left ?
>
>> In my Emacs 25.0.50.1 on Kubuntu 15.04 asking for the current binding
>> with C-h k shift+left shows
>
>> <left> (translated from <S-left>) runs the command left-char (found in
>> ...
>
>> What says on your system?
>
> The same, I think I begin to understand, the reason is that shift+arrows
> is used for setting the mark (as in MS windows) so it might not be
> possible to bind these key combination.

Works for me:

    (define-key global-map [(shift left)] 'xxxx)

(Linux)

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Dan Espen