> If you want to replace by pasting, you'd lose the first selection by selecting what you want to have replaced. Yes, that's the tradeoff; you'd have to delete

> If you want to replace by pasting, you'd lose the first selection by selecting what you want to have replaced. Yes, that's the tradeoff; you'd have to delete that separately. This would be quite close the X11 primary selection and middle-click paste. I think that works reasonably well on its own, but trying to provide both models as X11 does is a mess.