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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: Saving the selection before killing
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:37:11 -0400
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    As a kill command i Emacs makes Emacs own the selection, we must pull in the 
    foreign selection before the kill.

Is it impossible for Emacs to find out that the selection had a
previous owner once it has given the X call to own the selection?