I don't know if it could be of help, but I applied the debdiff from Thomas Ward to the current ubuntu package (abiword 3.0.0-4ubuntu1) and it works flawlessly: the CTRL-SHIFT-CURSOR_KEY shortcut has returned to work again after applying the patch.
I don't know if it could be of help, but I applied the debdiff from Thomas Ward to the current ubuntu package (abiword 3.0.0-4ubuntu1) and it works flawlessly: the CTRL-SHIFT- CURSOR_ KEY shortcut has returned to work again after applying the patch.