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: Re: purpose and usage of secondary-selection ??? Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 13:48:02 -0400 Message-ID: <307e29ea-6acc-a8bb-c8d4-2b3607d26201@mousecar.com> References: <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 1474049298 15936 195.159.176.226 (16 Sep 2016 18:08:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 18:08:18 +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 20:08:14 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 1bkxYW-00033M-3C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2016 20:08:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43037 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bkxYU-0004yj-4d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2016 14:08:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41078) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bkxFH-00062Q-6a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2016 13:48:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bkxFD-0007RC-1r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2016 13:48:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.perfora.net ([74.208.4.196]:55743) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bkxFC-0007Q9-QL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2016 13:48:10 -0400 Original-Received: from nv.mousecar.net ([96.27.75.237]) by mrelay.perfora.net (mreueus001) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MS3lE-1baYAk291O-00TF0z for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2016 19:48:08 +0200 In-Reply-To: X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:ZGHu8g5YT8uBcjj5iVqpljcxliGukH/jG+WL62ogLByk2kZivmq jURthxBN6UJeRaTtAQzfALbVTiEvUyp3SAvrCteH+6duACgnjzsYVV5Us3AYropBu3xfTYC zh0ZGK+pRzwSOCTH5OPYwVfW2cXmSR6VaPM/6FJ5jzeBdTjbrjLhGwE32I+mxjiK9uDdP91 MUd86o4jXvc1wO/9L63pg== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:7oBNjkcv+OY=:N6/4dhd8OZk7r2bOG68a2U LLTiM4wpU/d2GFsmdXQA+aGNpqlpaR2W6Jk5ZjBR4qYBthe94PhQINCUs3lD1WDKZMfSAx2+L mgES5ZWE+Dv+M3k2S4Shux3XpOFXVkMakl6B2WVShrA709UzetiSjkI9fxXEj3sxBvIGsbqwo wKc+YpSs7bD6ZY5UWSqP5vv/FObEP4b8ERbRjystc0ZxPuJpbxpCfVYFzHGlGYLjSZtUaFn+T GwlLi74e2S2lH1SvOsrxoh6R43oYEPKqDwoe89HAzHT9XXPLwGkimAFwtfgUWdDW4HnHflgFu iaEAxqaw0WMa5mzejF+6l6jyqCMVc/3c7o3RY0eHt/T8PBPsalY1IvriLp6ptLjP1JnVgPLXa kxZHC5yivYcs9H5BkwVckUO/SKp28p/m3rSl58xAjisVyclWWH4yIot4dM9EsmOCq8p6/FkN/ 4+yop9UbJZYZzvu8HLDs1XxfDaV0rS94ikLDGyh3/8NG/7EziuQsKC8o6fiHoR1qzVpfY13eN x3MXO18DjfuifyJDnWzGafqAG4krV7qL6F6X8ALONw5wRa7y/Tr+W7F81voHvVGApk2dooDwV 6SkcH3adVMayvpoelxE2SpdvC95qIkPOMqCdXsjWXOdHu2k1hF9k/o8Xsh9qHnmNiFi9b/1Es KQDEPpavG8NiMRMtmVWyv8FB39zkkmVg9c06IePFN2m+9dk+WsJHJsUEXi4WbAgVCkQiYNldR HhFnJjEenMsYmKzz X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 74.208.4.196 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.21 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:111346 Archived-At: Hmmm. I searched both my Inbox and Spam/Junk folder and found neither my own post or the reply. That's very strange. On 09/16/2016 01:14 PM, Kaushal Modi wrote: > > It showed. You also got a reply. > > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2016, 12:56 PM ken > wrote: > > 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? > > -- > > Kaushal Modi >