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I am trying to use windmove with the default bindings and am unable to get the shift key bindings working correctly.

When I hit Shift-<up>, instead of selecting another window, the point moves and a region is selected.

Also, C-h k RET Shift-<up> simply shows <up>.

Using GNU Emacs 24.3.

Here is the entry from my .emacs.

(global-set-key "\e[1;2A" 'windmove-up)
(global-set-key "\e[1;2B" 'windmove-down)
(global-set-key "\e[1;2C" 'windmove-right)
(global-set-key "\e[1;2D" 'windmove-left)

I am using these entries, instead of windmove-default-keybindings since the default wasn't working when I opened a non-windowed emacs through tmux.

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  • Simply shows what?
    – Malabarba
    Nov 13, 2014 at 0:36
  • @Malabarba Forgot to apply code markup. Fixed.
    – Pradhan
    Nov 13, 2014 at 0:47
  • Ok, this indicates you don't have windmove keybinds. Shift setting the mark is completely unrelated here (and it's the expected behavior). You'll need to provide a minimal example of how you're activating windmove.
    – Malabarba
    Nov 13, 2014 at 0:51
  • @Malabarba Added more info. I guess I fell into the XY problem trap by not specifying everything :) The above code snippet was what I found elsewhere as a suggested solution for the tmux-based emacs issue. You are right. With windmove-default-keybindings, it does indeed work in the windowed version. It still doesn't work in tmux. However it is beginning to look like more of an inputrc issue since C-h k isn't getting it either.
    – Pradhan
    Nov 13, 2014 at 1:04
  • After making your bindings, what does C-h w windmove-down tell you? Whatever key it says is the key that is bound to that command. Then do C-h k followed by hitting whatever keyboard key you think your keyboard uses to create the sequence ESC [ 1 ; 2 B (i.e., "\e[1;2B"). That tells you what that keyboard key (whatever it is) is really bound to, if anything.
    – Drew
    Nov 13, 2014 at 2:52

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With (tty-type) being of the xterm family, \e[1;2A wasn't being mapped to S-<up>. The bindings introduced by windmove-default-keybindings work in my non-windowed emacs setup after redefining this input as follows:

(define-key input-decode-map "\e[1;2A" [S-up])

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