Re: purpose and usage of secondary-selection ???

[ken]

Hmmm.  I searched both my Inbox and Spam/Junk folder and found neither 
my own post or the reply. That's very strange.

On 09/16/2016 01:14 PM, Kaushal Modi wrote:
> It showed. You also got a reply.
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2016, 12:56 PM ken <gebser@mousecar.com 
> <mailto:gebser@mousecar.com>> wrote:
>
>     Sometimes while typing on my laptop I accidentally brush against the
>     touchpad and inadvertantly mess up something.  Today, while not even
>     emacs, this happened, affecting what happened in an emacs frame which
>     previously didn't even have the focus.
>
>     What I ended up in that emacs frame was that a random section of text
>     was set to background yellow.  Investigating further, I found that
>     text
>     with the yellow background was a secondary-selection.  But I couldn't
>     find anything in the Help screens describing anything about it, except
>     its properties.  So here are my questions:
>
>     What is/are the purpose(s) of a secondary-selection?
>
>     What can be done with a secondary-selection...? and how to do them?
>
>     How do I undo this secondary-selection... i.e., make the selection go
>     away without changing the file/buffer in any way?
>
>
>     Thanks much.
>
>     Note: I sent this same email to the group on Tuesday, but it never
>     showed.  Has the server been down?
>
> --
>
> Kaushal Modi