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     PWB can operate on three types of selections. When passed to a PWB
     function, they are arguments. The current type of selection is
     called the "selection mode."
 
     Selection
     Argument     Description
 
     stream       A streamarg is a continuous string of characters
     streamarg    from the beginning of the selection to the end, as
                  follows:
 
                  abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
                  abcdef████████████████████
                  ███████████████████tuvwxyz
                  abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
 
     box          A boxarg is a rectangular area (column) of text, as
     boxarg       follows:
 
                  abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
                  abcdef█████████████tuvwxyz
                  abcdef█████████████tuvwxyz
                  abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
 
     line         A linearg is a range of entire lines from the line at
     linearg      the starting point to the line at the ending point,
                  as follows:
 
                  abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
                  ██████████████████████████
                  ██████████████████████████
                  abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
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