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From: davy@RIACS.EDU
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Subject: selections and highlighting
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Date: 27 Nov 88 19:49:07 GMT
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Under R2, xterm and friends would highlight the current selection while
you were selecting it, and then turn the highlighting off when you were
done.  Under R3, the selection stays highlighted until you select
something else (at which point it is highlighted), or until the
selection becomes owned by somebody else (as I understand it).

Personally, I find this behavior "icky" - I don't like these black
areas on my screen distracting me.  I've tried playing with the
various mouse button translations to make it behave like the R2
selection highlighting, to no avail.

Has anyone figured out how to do this?  Is it possible?

--Dave Curry
davy@riacs.edu