Re: selected text is PRIMARY?

[John Ehresman <jpe wingware com>]

Xavier Bestel wrote:
> It does not cause any problem. Just some people want to switch from a
> well-defined behavior (one PRIMARY per DISPLAY) to a fuzzy one: you want
> to have several selections, but how many ?
> - One selection per application ?
> - One selection per window ?
> - One selection per widget ?

The counter-argument is one selection per display is too limiting -- 
because I may want to select a paragraph in one editor window, switch to 
another to select & copy text, and return to the first window to paste 
which will replace the selection there.

This is not to say that there can't be a single primary selection that 
usually can be inserted by the middle mouse button.  The scintilla 
editor widget uses different colors to indicate whether it has the 
primary selection and that seems to work fairly well.

John