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It seems like Emacs 19.25 is a bit too forceful about setting and owning
the X11 PRIMARY selection.  This makes cut and paste a pain.

Examples:
 1. Using (backward-kill-word)  (ESC Backspace) sets the PRIMARY selection,
    removing the selection you may have previously had in a different window
    (i.e. a non-Emacs application, like xterm.)

    For this kind of purpose, Emacs should not use the PRIMARY selection.
    Perhaps it could use the SECONDARY selection, or no selection at all.
    (Is there a way to configure this?)
    (Is the SECONDARY selection ever used?)

 2. Emacs doesn't release its selection when I do a "cut" in a different
    window.  The different window can even be another Emacs window.
    (I do the "cut" with multi-click.el's 'multi-click-drag-region function.)

    This is very annoying.  To be able to successfully cut from another
    application, I have to click in my Emacs window to un-select the selection.

    Does Emacs deliberately ignore all SelectionClear events?  If so, tsk tsk!

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Roger Petersen
roger@sr.hp.com

Emacs: v19.25.