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Re:Whatever happened to the Secondary Selection?

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On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 10:40:45 -0400, Lew Pitcher wrote:

> On Saturday September 17 2016 04:10, in comp.os.linux.x, "dlbendigo"
> <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> wrote:
> 
>> Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> Wrote in message:
>>> For over 20 years, I have been using the secondary-selection (a
>>> standard feature of the X-Windows system) when editing texts, using
>>> the Solaris operating system on Sun Hardware. Recently, I have
>>> switched to Linux on i86 hardware.
>> 
>> It seems that you are the only one to  think it has value.
> 
> No, Charles is /not/ the only one to think that secondary-selection has
> value.

Well I'm glad to hear that, but I wish those others would speak up. My 
implementation has been downloaded 11 times now, but I have heard no 
feedback from anyone who has tried to use it. The only proof of the 
pudding is in the eating, so will someone please try it and report here 
that they do (or do not) like it.

So far, we just have people saying "nobody ever uses it, so it must be 
useless", which is a non-sequitur.


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Whatever happened to the Secondary Selection? Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> - 2016-08-20 21:01 +0000
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