[comp.windows.x] more on selections and highlighting

davy@RIACS.EDU (11/28/88)

	To: xpert@athena.mit.edu
	Subject: selections and highlighting
	Date: Sun, 27 Nov 88 11:49:07 -0800
	From: davy@riacs.edu

	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


As a few people have pointed out, I should have specified:

	X11R3 with MIT patch sets 1 & 2, Sun 3/50 and 3/60, SunOS 4.0, twm

--Dave