From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: purpose and usage of secondary-selection ??? Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 23:34:58 +0200 Message-ID: <87vaxz8ovx.fsf@web.de> References: <6a48016d-42bd-54ea-44c6-8dbf10fae885@mousecar.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1473802554 26212 195.159.176.226 (13 Sep 2016 21:35:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 21:35:54 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) Cc: GNU Emacs List To: ken Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 13 23:35:51 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 1bjvMq-0006Dv-E4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Sep 2016 23:35:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51719 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bjvMq-0006Gw-Fc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Sep 2016 17:35:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46521) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bjvMC-0006ED-Vu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Sep 2016 17:35:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bjvM8-0006we-5T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Sep 2016 17:35:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.web.de ([217.72.192.78]:60575) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bjvM7-0006wE-RJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Sep 2016 17:35:04 -0400 Original-Received: from drachen.dragon ([90.186.2.100]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb102) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0Ma2U7-1bRznY2ndf-00LqMj; Tue, 13 Sep 2016 23:34:59 +0200 In-Reply-To: <6a48016d-42bd-54ea-44c6-8dbf10fae885@mousecar.com> (ken's message of "Tue, 13 Sep 2016 15:15:58 -0400") X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:gcsfbZk6GHsL+05kjS/OY54baUXEFbt77HpEKPig9vco95LcWmt X43PwVKXModN4zMu2Gs3ExR4Yek1UrAGZcmeYiPjOxh104mCfFGSazVVRREKsCH3nwxRJRR c5Xw8re26+0caFsVUiSKEv/q7A3Yrr8eIo5wzxkTi4d/gNcOGSDmDfbHpD6grS2X07YcXV6 XtmJKZXhpJEz8foxuroWQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:G0KcSiOeTxM=:kEr3z7mZAej+ncVUtkDdtc l20TA7Z3gWDWt5h2TzaT3E35jhq2nObDCp6BUEfIzh6yn0mBbPzQD/DvOPb5ZYBKH2Sv8HkVV tCs3ea3mN35lx5ihTdfgHQdPpXYbJM3e40fa48pq/qM8RFyzjSqNdGWfgY0yFySnxYw8Mbv0J Ei9aJpALsuhMq5t5xq/sta6hrvDEmsWUBKaeYbYIkaWxy/Zsg+netDarUAisD8+vnrrDuxmz4 tddOo1hHvSg62tRJFTT1l8QXRtnRkoLVhZqvpTWihGHag++1zMGtqVzKGtl8iUspsWB/HzEfx VX2xNZCwmmetMZVSApB1i7aUo8IXi/HLlR0euTTffr2ET4tAyjFwTnQA7+3prlNy/eU9vms9X xkJ8fgbe9BgY23oA5e2Go0QKnrhBg+Y8ladyGeWhpw51qHhYyfc1FIKTuinQlUfldtBMOJAEi v4DouMtoIQ3WS2I1zEByllzV55ddk4/Oy6eNthIOB1Ot05JprObUTvGGi+TWNaujNutbBZYbc o+ZLB3IfQo8HTaD8xfrr5V+vC7e6IbGmvjqvvmUOw0Dhf0oRvvBXlw9dloOSI4ZNg8BIR1WBc dB52/p/LC0w08uCUGx+sz9OcbNxEvwBPCN/ZMhwHTUANTXJNu5/5Tog7RXn7X/a7+3Jl/aBFH SeUNOpEWnKmeFIXLAvdWnkxsmYREiY+mIsVbQhxpwOnhPH1MVjdAmMb/AWWTgN4uBXUldEKSC nHJnlTZl0RAwgSR14spTU4LCDz5dPHEqHmNT6yjf/pV2+LYnAHhO0e32RE53aXJsDtV+3UYN X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 217.72.192.78 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:111339 Archived-At: ken writes: > What is/are the purpose(s) of a secondary-selection? > > What can be done with a secondary-selection...? and how to do them? It's just a secondary...selection, not much different from the primary one. The main purpose is, I think, to provide an interface to the secondary selection some window systems provide. If your window system doesn't support a secondary selection, it's not of much use per se in Emacs. But some people like having another separate selection, and as already has been mentioned, you can develop nice personal working/editing styles around it. But it can do nothing that could not be achieved in other ways - if more or less comfortably is mostly a matter of taste and your Emacs configuration (for example, your value of `mouse-yank-at-point', if you have a good mean to get "back where I had been before" etc.) and your working habits. I used to use secondary selections some time ago, but then I stopped using it because it sucked that I could not access it from outside Emacs, so I found ways to substitute it with other stuff (like "smart-yank.el"). Michael.