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I haven't seen many systems that use an outline for selection. Alan indicated that their original version inverted the selection (he uses the word "complement") as do most systems today.

Thank you, I believe I misunderstood the article's description of the change he was talking about.

most systems today use highlight.

... of which "inverting the text" is an implementation

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