Bug#277832: #277832 xterm: copy/paste of non-ISO-8859-1 characters between uxterm windows

[Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>]

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> But I don't want to use the clipboard for that, as it doesn't work
> with the middle-click with other applications (and it doesn't seem
> to always work).

There aren't that many choices - the primary selection is only owned by 
one application at a time.  I reduced(*) xterm's tendency to give it up, 
but

	if another application asserts it, or

	you start a new selection, or

	something updates the xterm window where it's highlighted for
	the selection

then the primary selection is lost - there's no standard mechanism to get 
it back again.

(*) some minor improvements are possible, but I don't believe we're
    talking about those.

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