Standardized keyboard shortcut to paste PRIMARY?

[Matthias Clasen]

On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 19:36 +0100, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Laurence Darby wrote:
> >> Because PRIMARY is a mouse-only thing. You set it with the mouse and
> >> you paste it with the mouse too.
> >
> >Selecting text with the keyboard sets PRIMARY, and Shift-insert will
> >paste it, but only in non GTK/QT apps.  So saying PRIMARY is a mouse
> >only thing is just plain wrong.
> 
> Current best practice is that just selecting text with the keyboard should 
> not set PRIMARY or CLIPBOARD.
> 

Traditionally, PRIMARY has _always_ corresponded to the visible
selection. I don't see how breaking that rule is suddenly best practise.