# HG changeset patch
# User Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
# Date 1281828100 14400
# Node ID 34afb1a49d4c1d55971e1921780c8eb29576a5e4
# Parent  9b6d3348021648ace388ef78fb9bb036f61fa569
* simple.el (kill-region): Doc fix (Bug#6787).

diff -r 9b6d33480216 -r 34afb1a49d4c lisp/ChangeLog
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog	Sat Aug 14 10:20:08 2010 +0200
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog	Sat Aug 14 19:21:40 2010 -0400
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2010-08-14  Chong Yidong  <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
+
+	* simple.el (kill-region): Doc fix (Bug#6787).
+
 2010-08-14  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
 
 	* calendar/diary-lib.el (diary-header-line-format):
diff -r 9b6d33480216 -r 34afb1a49d4c lisp/simple.el
--- a/lisp/simple.el	Sat Aug 14 10:20:08 2010 +0200
+++ b/lisp/simple.el	Sat Aug 14 19:21:40 2010 -0400
@@ -2959,7 +2959,8 @@
 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.
 
-This is the primitive for programs to kill text (as opposed to deleting it).
+Lisp programs should use this function for killing text.
+ (To delete text, use `delete-region'.)
 Supply two arguments, character positions indicating the stretch of text
  to be killed.
 Any command that calls this function is a \"kill command\".