GNU bug report logs - #36365
Add info how to deselect secondary selection (Emacs manual)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Sebastian Urban <mrsebastianurban <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 18:00:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #25 received at 36365 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, mrsebastianurban <at> gmail.com
Cc: 36365 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#36365: Add info how to deselect secondary selection (Emacs
 manual)
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2019 14:12:05 -0700 (PDT)

> I see now that there's no way of canceling a secondary selection
> without starting a new one.  So I changed the text to reflect that.

Correct.  An empty secondary selection is the same as
no secondary selection (at least as far as Emacs is
concerned).  When you try to yank the empty secondary
selection Emacs raises the error "No secondary selection".

(That's as it should be, IMO.)
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