Paste and Re-select

[Michael Myers]

Is it possible to paste and re-select the pasted text in OmniOutliner 
via AppleScript? I find this operation very useful in apps when I need 
to immediately modify properties of the pasted material.

It works quite well in BBEdit because you can assign keyboard shortcuts 
to items in its Scripts menu:

tell application "BBEdit"
     set contents of selection to contents of current clipboard
end tell