# HG changeset patch
# User Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
# Date 1224608513 0
# Node ID 9a29db80cf9fcd5f01b63c3d8a099483c091b833
# Parent  5b6498622ab2199dab90e4c6cdb0948216ec3d98
(region-active-p): Doc fix.

diff -r 5b6498622ab2 -r 9a29db80cf9f lisp/simple.el
--- a/lisp/simple.el	Tue Oct 21 17:01:45 2008 +0000
+++ b/lisp/simple.el	Tue Oct 21 17:01:53 2008 +0000
@@ -3515,9 +3515,9 @@
 
 (defun region-active-p ()
   "Return t if Transient Mark mode is enabled and the mark is active.
-This is NOT the best function to use to test whether a command should
-operate on the region instead of the usual behavior -- for that,
-use `use-region-p'."
+To test whether a command should operate on the region instead of
+the usual behavior, use `use-region-p' instead.  That returns nil
+for empty regions when `use-empty-active-region' is nil."
   (and transient-mark-mode mark-active))
 
 (defvar mark-ring nil