>>>Hal DeVore said:
>     "Brent said in his book"
>     This Paste function can be convenient, but it turns out that
>     users still need to keep track of the difference between the
>     two selections.  If a user only understands the CLIPBOARD,
>     then the user of PRIMARY is only surprising.  I learned that
>     it is best to have a separate paste user action for the two
>     selections.  The convention is that <ButtonRelease-2> sets
>     the insert point and inserts the PRIMARY selection. ... The
>     <<Paste>> event (e.g., the Paste key) simply inserts the
>     CLIPBOARD selection at the current insert point. ...
Yeah, I learned by hearing exmh users scream in agony.  Sorry about
all that.  We should be able to clean this up.  If you grep for
"bind" in seditBind you quickly find the Text_Selection proc
I described in the previous email.
--
Brent Welch
Software Architect, Panasas Inc
Pioneering the World's Most Scalable and Agile Storage Network
www.panasas.com
welch@panasas.com
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