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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Selections and cut buffers
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Date: 10 May 89 14:36:38 GMT
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> Date: 9 May 89 21:00:05 GMT
> From: Sam Black <ukma!mailrus!ulowell!masscomp!black@ohio-state.arpa>
> ...
> According to the man page, you should be able to set up something like:
> ...
> which "should" allow you to have multiple selections available for cut/paste.

The man page didn't make clear that currently an individual xterm can
only _provide_ one selection at a time.  The example you extracted
works just fine for pasting multiple selections or for making the
(single) highlighted region one of the selections.

This is probably a mis-feature of the R3 implementation, but with
our current work queue it's unlikely to be fixed in the next release.
We'll fix the docs instead.