From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
To: GNU Emacs List <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: purpose and usage of secondary-selection ???
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 15:15:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6a48016d-42bd-54ea-44c6-8dbf10fae885@mousecar.com> (raw)
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.
next reply other threads:[~2016-09-13 19:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-13 19:15 ken [this message]
2016-09-13 20:23 ` purpose and usage of secondary-selection ??? Drew Adams
2016-09-13 21:34 ` Michael Heerdegen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-09-16 16:55 ken
2016-09-16 17:14 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-09-16 17:48 ` ken
2016-09-16 18:18 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-09-16 18:31 ken
2016-09-16 19:38 ` Drew Adams
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