Bug#278897: xterm: insert-selection(...) action breaks selection insertion

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>]

Package: xterm
Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8
Severity: important

I wanted to try to use CLIPBOARD instead of CUT_BUFFER0, so that
copy-paste between xterm and Mozilla (in fact, not only Mozilla,
but other GTK+ applications too) work in any case. So, I modified
*VT100.translations in my .app-defaults/XTerm file:

*VT100.translations:		#override \n\
	<Ctrl>Up:		scroll-back(1, line) \n\
	<Ctrl>Down:		scroll-forw(1, line) \n\
	<BtnUp>:		select-end(PRIMARY, CLIPBOARD) \n\
	~Ctrl ~Meta <Btn2Up>:	insert-selection(PRIMARY, CLIPBOARD)

But now, inserting selections with the button 2 no longer works:
nothing happens. Even if I replace CLIPBOARD by CUT_BUFFER0 above,
I can't insert selections either, though this is documented in the
xterm man page as being the default ("default bindings in the VT102
window").

Setting as "important" since in fact many applications seem not to
support CUT_BUFFER0 (Mozilla, Opera, gnome-terminal, Liferea, Straw
are the ones I tried, and since cut buffers are said to be obsolete,
this won't change).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1

Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-18   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libexpat1                 1.95.6-8       XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libfontconfig1            2.2.3-1        generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6              2.1.7-2.2      FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libice6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libncurses5               5.4-4          Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libsm6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Session Management
ii  libxaw7                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Athena widget set library
ii  libxext6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxft2                   2.1.2-6        FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxmu6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii  libxpm4                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X pixmap library
ii  libxrender1               0.8.3-7        X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii  xlibs                     4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System client libraries m
ii  xlibs-data                4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System client data

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