emacs CUA-mode OK in X but not working console

Question

I have been struggling to get emacs CUA-mode working in the console where it works fine in X (in an xterm using emacs -nw ).

The main features I want are shift-movement selection and ^C , ^V , ^X but any more would be helpful. So far I am using a local keyboard and monitor but ultimate goal is to get all this working over ssh using something like putty.

So far I have been working on getting my terminal to output the same control sequences that emacs expects to see for shift-movement (specifically S-<down> or <S-down> ) and this works in the console when shift-select-mode is set in .emacs. So far so good, so I can shift select text from any emacs invocation type: X-windows, terminal ( $TERM=linux or $ TERM=xterm ). This site has been very useful.

Shift-<down> displays as follows using cat -v and emacs happily maps <S-down> to this control sequence.

cat -v            (then type shift-down)
^[O2B

Here's the problem, switch on cua-mode and the shift-selection stops working but ^C , ^V and ^X starts working !? So I can either have shift-selection or ^C , ^V , ^X but not both at the same time.

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Setup:
emacs 23
Raspberry Pi
Raspian (similar to Debian)

Answer 1

You might like to try a more recent version of Emacs, since cua-mode has been slowly changed to use the same code as shift-select-mode. In Emacs-24.4, cua-mode actually uses shift-select-mode directly.