From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
To: gebser@mousecar.com, GNU Emacs List <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: purpose and usage of secondary-selection ???
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 17:14:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFyQvY2=oeZL_M0+gKayuHP6jWYukKcCBBY1dhmemd7xn-0kpA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <069e306f-360f-50ad-9c51-ebec2861d42a@mousecar.com>
It showed. You also got a reply.
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016, 12:56 PM ken <gebser@mousecar.com> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-16 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-16 16:55 purpose and usage of secondary-selection ??? ken
2016-09-16 17:14 ` Kaushal Modi [this message]
2016-09-16 17:48 ` ken
2016-09-16 18:18 ` Kaushal Modi
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-09-16 18:31 ken
2016-09-16 19:38 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-13 19:15 ken
2016-09-13 20:23 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-13 21:34 ` Michael Heerdegen
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