Nedit & KDE loss of selection problems

[Joerg Fischer]

Scott Tringali wrote:

> I wonder if gedit has the same problems with klippy.

So do I.  I tried to test it, and I succeeded in making a selection in
gedit.  What I would need now is performing an editing operation on the
selection, but I can find none.  Ideally, gedit should reselect the
changed text.  This is what seems to cause the problem: Selection,
editing operation replacing the selection thereby deselecting, and
finally reselecting the changed text again -- which fails if klipper
interferes to prevent an empty clipboard.  

As the small macro 

deselect_all()
select(0, 10)

shows, there is no need of changing the buffer, but just to
temporarily lose the selection.  How can I do this with gedit? 
Selecting and deselecting by hand wouldn't be fast enough, I guess.

Jörg