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>    (The main objections is wanting to maintain the contents of PRIMARY,
>    the solution here is to train users to use the clipboard...)

Yeah, I don't know what the best solution is here.  Is there no way for
GtkEntry to highlight the text without affecting the contents of
PRIMARY?  I regard that as a purely mouse-based transfer mechanism, so
it would be nice if, for example, just tabbing through a dialog didn't
affect it, since you're only using the keyboard to do that.  But from
the little I remember about the technicalities from my Motif programming
days, I'm guessing that might not be an option...

Cheeri,
Calum.

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