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From: jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: selections and highlighting
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Date: 28 Nov 88 18:12:16 GMT
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> R3 xterm uses selections now instead of cut buffers

Yup, this is a feature: the user-interface people say that selections should
provide visual feedback to the user indicating what has been chosen.  This is
different from cut buffers which just salt away the text that had been
selected.  

An alternative that might be better would to be have a selection color
that would be used to display the text....

Jim