From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: ken Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: purpose and usage of secondary-selection ??? Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 12:55:15 -0400 Message-ID: <069e306f-360f-50ad-9c51-ebec2861d42a@mousecar.com> Reply-To: gebser@mousecar.com NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1474044988 25372 195.159.176.226 (16 Sep 2016 16:56:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 16:56:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2 To: GNU Emacs List Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 16 18:56:24 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bkwR5-0005qA-Qn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2016 18:56:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42723 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bkwR2-0005Kf-Ry for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2016 12:56:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56321) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bkwQG-00055n-MT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2016 12:55:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bkwQ9-0000VV-T0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2016 12:55:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.perfora.net ([74.208.4.194]:50350) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bkwQ9-0000Td-Mb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2016 12:55:25 -0400 Original-Received: from nv.mousecar.net ([96.27.75.237]) by mrelay.perfora.net (mreueus001) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0Mf0JT-1bN6w71sld-00OaGn for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2016 18:55:22 +0200 X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:FAvCwSmWhCqPTTHpHMBSRPKTnRbu/B6sOh/3bAqo3C13tsSEA89 7cp+wUgwGAFqrNgBOadZNuWrr4Fx+d7xYkEDstd8+wVP1odZP5yVoqG32GhLJL8klpQNZcB yH0V6FeGfOOLS2MOoRg0tTh/vw212VYvHlHonhzA0zLJHcbUfIGLYGyb7etakPeBWtzVqjO eTNmnAeY9gTcnttdLgXIA== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:R24mjTNHOHE=:TGrnqDP/7MVFkd+SCyfCis EYgqDL39EpIpJ0AweC49xQzdBWGgZP6vO6+Ec3GzXhOE1TSyA1JQcMS191aSwE8MB2haucKul H4rt8q3uKkJ4JMP0bLo1EaDf8iQ7e7QBGlfwnTxkQ6vqcN7CZvryxnMH6z8PRkTgKXo91v0jX J0rIZlpqEwu9rdS/uLexx5eSRd6QLWRpPmXg1WY7xY6dYLiBx9fscuu0VLAEL23h1VQKvB3il beOz6FO5D4lJxjj51OzBvB5MXReTLyXKJeZsXpS1Oa24DH1bIlM7d7FeVrwhGJRSzcHnpKVJo NkADBq7pHqD6uTTVg/gb4manlP4vhCZll+TmOOHa1/BjuQzEQo/BeZa4bWvby0O/lZpmUD0sZ xlQEv5jjNdfLk5jE+Qu8HMkYn6qj7Ck3zFJp3vV8R/zK8jYfHem1IgXQItlDMcUOJTaH6dGY9 G0NMCSEkK+adkD7XlTGZgBSFvNiWwxbaatm/sy1BN74+mMv00xdg6BRk6bjJ8Cwt63Y2oCCZh tPrd+AhlwK9ayD0gc+Uqdiqt/wK/UqjsVK8VWCo07heRFP2D6iMWDvP6cbyw1XZ+Qcpfz6gHs eb50oQNhaJM59zxAWWRortQ2bn7JrtLMRZeLjhjEyQulKYxOiUpCTqNGLpzLG/qg0jF4nd1eq x/PHIsdR7iNPJLP9R/Y4ZqiDqqrZPmzLZvJehw+fyf/r3Xw2aJdezju+UAUE5xOtJERwBOuAH 6jgLh115xwkgIc4w X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 74.208.4.194 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:111344 Archived-At: Sometimes while typing on my laptop I accidentally brush against the touchpad and inadvertantly mess up something. Today, while not even emacs, this happened, affecting what happened in an emacs frame which previously didn't even have the focus. What I ended up in that emacs frame was that a random section of text was set to background yellow. Investigating further, I found that text with the yellow background was a secondary-selection. But I couldn't find anything in the Help screens describing anything about it, except its properties. So here are my questions: What is/are the purpose(s) of a secondary-selection? What can be done with a secondary-selection...? and how to do them? How do I undo this secondary-selection... i.e., make the selection go away without changing the file/buffer in any way? Thanks much. Note: I sent this same email to the group on Tuesday, but it never showed. Has the server been down?