# HG changeset patch # User Eli Zaretskii # Date 982325202 0 # Node ID 116beb1b2fc7d529bf63715fd8b4f9615aac65a9 # Parent f906b583d90f01b93f0a5328ab289bc6797efe56 (kill-region, kill-line, kill-ring-save): Doc fix. diff -r f906b583d90f -r 116beb1b2fc7 lisp/simple.el --- a/lisp/simple.el Fri Feb 16 11:52:52 2001 +0000 +++ b/lisp/simple.el Fri Feb 16 12:06:42 2001 +0000 @@ -1753,7 +1753,11 @@ "Kill between point and mark. The text is deleted but saved in the kill ring. The command \\[yank] can retrieve it from there. -\(If you want to kill and then yank immediately, use \\[copy-region-as-kill].) +\(If you want to kill and then yank immediately, use \\[kill-ring-save].) + +If you want to append the killed region to the last killed text, +use \\[append-next-kill] before \\[kill-region]. + If the buffer is read-only, Emacs will beep and refrain from deleting the text, but put the text in the kill ring anyway. This means that you can use the killing commands to copy text from a read-only buffer. @@ -1813,6 +1817,9 @@ If `interprogram-cut-function' is non-nil, also save the text for a window system cut and paste. +If you want to append the killed line to the last killed text, +use \\[append-next-kill] before \\[kill-ring-save]. + This command is similar to `copy-region-as-kill', except that it gives visual feedback indicating the extent of the region being copied." (interactive "r") @@ -2015,6 +2022,9 @@ with no argument. As a consequence, you can always kill a whole line by typing \\[beginning-of-line] \\[kill-line]. +If you want to append the killed line to the last killed text, +use \\[append-next-kill] before \\[kill-line]. + If the buffer is read-only, Emacs will beep and refrain from deleting the line, but put the line in the kill ring anyway. This means that you can use this command to copy text from a read-only buffer."