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: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 15:15:58 -0400 Message-ID: <6a48016d-42bd-54ea-44c6-8dbf10fae885@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 1473797506 14541 195.159.176.226 (13 Sep 2016 20:11:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 20:11:46 +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 Tue Sep 13 22:11:42 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 1bju3K-0002KP-3M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Sep 2016 22:11:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51403 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bju3I-0005u3-5n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Sep 2016 16:11:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40728) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bjtBq-0002F9-3j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Sep 2016 15:16:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bjtBl-0003jx-Te for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Sep 2016 15:16:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.perfora.net ([74.208.4.197]:60903) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bjtBl-0003jK-MT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Sep 2016 15:16:13 -0400 Original-Received: from nv.mousecar.net ([96.27.75.237]) by mrelay.perfora.net (mreueus002) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LZgDq-1bIZmB2tn2-00lVYA for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2016 21:16:11 +0200 X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:+Mj0YDUzjboWOV308Jw7btFiKrSAuGvGgTqoNMwpilGdhVckFB7 gr9+zI0shgoTLmBJzWcTzvGqbIsjz1lECmMcyt2gI6GZ4RFjjX0rcVghuD7gXp+hnYuS42g tV0jR/YEEMZze0syj/hRyHCTVIJ98qGJRGWwY0wP1SXtcSfHGAy0Wji97vv3KRu4/64bsUv Be+up93Pqdkgjcah3ICNw== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:4RQ71TJBUWo=:RBoKp66BAFtv0NaZlINf/f YUbq1gaYo+BDDU4jMuCozHkYy4C1GolHXMP9xhuI3ygtm7rbxtX+HHLKVS2fS/UuuLzlR9hdO oO/u5ig6Rmzwi7yE+qh6LlqkaZngT6tMxwFp0UxqP94yWOaxSJkLsTMPY2knueFcKjMOjDGaG rShevOrQVlS/xWqcg9Y20T25Izem85KkOahqNA2DmX7NADPY2mqvSROPiVijwLa960OKwlIAZ GiCy7b6rRbKWG1G0vWFz5x51680/hSnte2sVHvMEd1u1D0zdEQXtog64lV7ItjWNbC8sinLGT uVh7M9Qmo1eN3umjYKXZnpb62ihWGWjUEur5NSDTlf4Y433bSj5Oumk28uWl51jWdY4Vh3BYF 6OhjbPJLYEUl7vhDXTP7LNYcaYuzr7cvwyuuw/MI2RGT01Aetv/8oy1cXPP4RxQr/Hopz6Umy MZTmr4qCvzLU5SBIDPL5VMOKNAdLcVSke9Ew6v2BR9EnyHTyQMmTYd5TWEPavrQXbI1snN7np jRJWCz2xFACdtPwDwb6iqERZNudsWnj3Qo9LBdP5XDO+/obXTPmIzaAV8Amcs7QaCtqOXkA6p 3LjV2s4khF0Ms1d7diZ+UkyUYJ8CACEchNTI6plsAWNn9f7jmpIKd/7/yt5CofQ5R1bDGpdlf aJs1iDs76wse3iL1cc/BC681UTloueIPYaOiAtzjROUojf+5a/TndUfjULs+2e6FSj0dL/heH kqo3e+sYzwQ8vneD X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 74.208.4.197 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 16:10:51 -0400 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:111337 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.