Re: Shift selection using interactive spec

[Stefan Monnier]

> After playing around with an implementation of this, I feel that it is
> very problematic.

> The trouble with using handle-shift-selection to explicitly
> unhighlight the region is that every single motion command needs to
> call handle-shift-selection, by adding the ^ interactive spec.  For
> every motion comman (or command that moves point in addition to
> something else), there will be a bug: the shift-selected region won't
> be highlighted.  This therefore breaks backward compatibility with all
> external packages that define their own motion commands.

I do not understand what you mean.  Could you give a sample case?


        Stefan