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Revision: emacs@sv.gnu.org/emacs--unicode--0--patch-49 Merge from emacs--devo--0 Patches applied: * emacs--devo--0 (patch 164-184) - Update from CVS - Merge from gnus--rel--5.10 - Update from CVS: man/mh-e.texi (Folders): Various edits. - Update from erc--emacs--0 * gnus--rel--5.10 (patch 62-70) - Merge from emacs--devo--0 - Update from CVS
author Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
date Tue, 28 Mar 2006 23:08:20 +0000
parents a802c5505156 5dfbb2116f2d
children 65ca8fb66a0d
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--- a/lisp/simple.el	Tue Mar 28 11:24:02 2006 +0000
+++ b/lisp/simple.el	Tue Mar 28 23:08:20 2006 +0000
@@ -3196,6 +3196,9 @@
 \\[universal-argument] \\[set-mark-command], unconditionally
 set mark where point is.
 
+Setting the mark also sets the \"region\", which is the closest
+equivalent in Emacs to what some editors call the \"selection\".
+
 Novice Emacs Lisp programmers often try to use the mark for the wrong
 purposes.  See the documentation of `set-mark' for more information."
   (interactive "P")