diff doc/emacs/frames.texi @ 112098:40af77a50adc

Merge changes from emacs-23 branch

--- a/doc/emacs/frames.texi	Sun Jan 02 11:23:02 2011 +0000
+++ b/doc/emacs/frames.texi	Sun Jan 02 15:28:40 2011 -0500
@@ -58,10 +58,10 @@
 @end menu
 
 @node Cut and Paste
-@section Killing and Yanking on Graphical Displays
+@section Cutting and Pasting on Graphical Displays
 
-  This section describes commands for selecting a region, killing, and
-yanking using the mouse.
+  This section describes commands for selecting a region, cutting, and
+pasting using the mouse.
 
 @menu
 * Mouse Commands::      Moving, cutting, and pasting, with the mouse.
@@ -248,6 +248,14 @@
 selection, either in Emacs or in another X application, the previous
 contents of the primary selection are lost.
 
+@cindex MS-Windows, and primary selection
+  MS-Windows provides no primary selection, but Emacs emulates it
+within a single Emacs session, by storing the selected text
+internally.  Therefore, all the features and commands related to the
+primary selection work on Windows as they do on X, for cutting and
+pasting within the same session, but not across Emacs sessions or with
+other applications.
+
   Whenever you kill some text using a command such as @kbd{C-w}
 (@code{kill-region}), or copy it into the kill ring using a command
 such as @kbd{M-w} (@code{kill-ring-save}), that text is also saved in