Re: select text without moving the point in graphical interface

[Ernest Adrogué]

 8-12-2013, 22:25 (+0100); Michael Heerdegen escriu:
> Hi Ernest,
> 
> > one of the things I like about running emacs in a terminal is that I can
> > select text without moving the point; is it possible to do the same when
> > running in a graphical interface (GTK)?
> 
> This is not possible with the default selection, since point is, by
> definition, one border of the selection.
> 
> But what you describe sounds like a description of the secondary selection:
> 
>   (info "(emacs) Secondary Selection")

Yeah, this is exactly it.  Now I guess the question is can I have the
secondary selection text selection style but using the primary selection
instead?