 hal devore said brent said in his book this paste function can be convenient but it turns out that users still need to keep track of the difference between the two selections if a user only understands the clipboard then the user of primary is only surprising i learned that it is best to have a separate paste user action for the two selections the convention is that buttonrelease NUMBER sets the insert point and inserts the primary selection the paste event e g the paste key simply inserts the clipboard selection at the current insert point yeah i learned by hearing exmh users scream in agony sorry about all that we should be able to clean this up if you grep for bind in seditbind you quickly find the text_selection proc i described in the previous email brent welch software architect panasas inc pioneering the world s most scalable and agile storage network URL welch URL _______________________________________________ exmh users mailing list exmh users URL URL 