The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to gnu.emacs.bug as well.
Lars Ingebrigtsen <la...@gnus.org> writes: > Lennart Borgman <lennart.borg...@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