What does ‘eclectic text’ mean?

This text is from a transcript of a talk by David Gooding, entitled ‘Where Did the New Testament Come From?’ (2006).

The word is an adjective, meaning 'to choose out'; and in textual criticism an eclectic text is the name given to a text that scholars reconstruct on the basis of many different manuscripts. They will follow Manuscript 1 so far, but then if they think Manuscript 2 has a better reading in the next verse they will take the reading from that manuscript. Then, if somewhere else down the line they think that some other manuscript, Manuscript 20, has the best reading there, they will take that reading out of it. They choose from many different manuscripts; they don't just follow one.

The result is that you wouldn't find the text they produce in any one manuscript, because they have chosen from a number of different manuscripts in order to reconstruct their text. That is what eclectic means; it stands in distinction from a text that is just copied from one manuscript, or from a majority of manuscripts that all read the same thing practically everywhere.

So some scholars decide to follow certain manuscripts all the way through—whatever they have they will follow the manuscripts. Whereas other scholars don't follow just one manuscript—they choose a reading from this manuscript once and from that manuscript somewhere else. Their text is chosen out from many manuscripts. That is eclectic.