Questions tagged [secondary-selection]

I accidentally pressed some keys in a buffer and created the permanently highlighted region shown below. What is this region called, and how can I get rid of it?

How can I programmatically define a secondary selection with beginning and end defined?;) I try to look for this, but only find mouse usage;) Any pointers?;)

I often do something like this: Copy some stuff Go to where I need to paste it Paste it (C-y) Kill the rest of the line (C-k) Select what I just pasted, and copy it again Repeat steps 2-5 The whole "re-select what I just pasted" thing is not…

Emacs has a secondary selection (not the X11 selection, rather the mouse-secondary-overlay). On my system holding Alt-LMB dragging sets it. How would I check if there this selection is set in elisp? I tried checking; (if mouse-secondary-overlay …