Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU!jim From: jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: selections and highlighting Message-ID: <8811281812.AA27008@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU> Date: 28 Nov 88 18:12:16 GMT References: <8811271949.AA01014@intrepid.riacs.edu> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Lines: 12 > 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