# HG changeset patch
# User Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
# Date 981442803 0
# Node ID 89bf4e8936b6f632e0f55d4c0842c58aa8ab248f
# Parent  d668d8e7a4e83aeb7af41d88499b75ab5d6c4d44
(Killing): Document that kill commands in a read-only buffer do
put text into the kill ring, even if they don't kill it.

diff -r d668d8e7a4e8 -r 89bf4e8936b6 man/killing.texi
--- a/man/killing.texi	Tue Feb 06 06:54:56 2001 +0000
+++ b/man/killing.texi	Tue Feb 06 07:00:03 2001 +0000
@@ -42,6 +42,11 @@
 overrides that.  To alert you to the fact that you killed read-only
 text, Emacs prints a message to that effect in the echo area.
 
+  When @code{kill-read-only-ok} is @code{nil}, Emacs beeps if you try to
+kill text in a read-only buffers, but it puts the text you wanted to
+kill into the kill ring anyway.  This means you can use kill commands to
+copy text from read-only buffers.
+
   The delete commands include @kbd{C-d} (@code{delete-char}) and
 @key{DEL} (@code{delete-backward-char}), which delete only one character at
 a time, and those commands that delete only spaces or newlines.  Commands