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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R Swick)
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Subject: Re: XCutBuffer problem/bug/wierdness
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Date: 1 Mar 89 19:49:57 GMT
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> Somehow it
> appears that the editor program is remembering what was selected from
> its other window and overwriting the buffer from the graphic widget.

Looks like your programs are getting confused between cut buffers
and selections.  The R3 Xaw Text widget can use either cut buffers
or selections and by default does both, but prefers to paste
the PRIMARY selection if it exists, falling back to the cut buffer
only if no PRIMARY selection exists.

You could specify a 'translations' resource for the Text widget to
cause it to ignore selections (at least on the insert-selection
operation) or you could modify your program to always use selections
instead of the cut buffer.  The first is easy for quick-and-dirty,
the second will probably give you more satisfaction in the long run.