in xemacs or emacs the highlight disappeared, problems related to clipboard

[Harold L Hunt II]

That is by design.  Search the archives if you want to know why.

Hong Zhou wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> I use cygwin/Xserver on my win2000 as multiwindow mode. It is a great 
> work. I have two problems.
> 1. )It is good to copy between windows and X programs, so I start the 
> Xserver with the parameter '-clipborad'.  When press the left button of  
> mouse to highlight a region and release the button the highlight 
> disappeared automatically.  And in the xemacs(emacs)mini window shows a 
> message "mark set". The normal response should keep the highligh. Start 
> the Xserver without the parameter '-clipboard', xemacs works normally.
> 2.)I have a dictionary program to pick up the words in the sreen. After 
> I start local emacs in the cygwin shell , the program can't pick up any 
> word..
> 
> I thought it was the clipboard 's bug, wasn't it?
> 
> Thank you very much,
> Hong
>