On 2011-11-21, Anders Host-Madsen wrote: > You can hold down the shift key while you use the arrow keys, at > least on Mac.
This works but is not the "Emacs way". The advantage of a "begin-selection" command (lfun) is that you can now use any movement function to find the end of the region you want to highlight (e.g. find or even advanced find). With the Shift-... key approach, this becomes hard to to with some key combos like Shift-Ctrl-PgUp or impossible with lfuns that do not have a "*-select" variant. However, AFAIK, this is not implemented in LyX. Günter
