Re: Saving the selection before killing

[Jan Djärv]

Richard Stallman skrev:
>     As a kill command i Emacs makes Emacs own the selection, we must pull in the 
>     foreign selection before the kill.
>
> Is it impossible for Emacs to find out that the selection had a
> previous owner once it has given the X call to own the selection?

Yes.

        Jan D.