# HG changeset patch
# User Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
# Date 981442363 0
# Node ID 5a41fb5ed099aa6267b9e7028f7203844b2933ee
# Parent  f042a6d7e37ce022fea915508d720aedfe03b816
(kill-line): Doc fix.

diff -r f042a6d7e37c -r 5a41fb5ed099 lisp/simple.el
--- a/lisp/simple.el	Tue Feb 06 06:22:18 2001 +0000
+++ b/lisp/simple.el	Tue Feb 06 06:52:43 2001 +0000
@@ -2005,7 +2005,11 @@
 If `kill-whole-line' is non-nil, then this command kills the whole line
 including its terminating newline, when used at the beginning of a line
 with no argument.  As a consequence, you can always kill a whole line
-by typing \\[beginning-of-line] \\[kill-line]."
+by typing \\[beginning-of-line] \\[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."
   (interactive "P")
   (kill-region (point)
 	       ;; It is better to move point to the other end of the kill