[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/man/killing.texi

[Richard M. Stallman]

Index: emacs/man/killing.texi
diff -c emacs/man/killing.texi:1.26 emacs/man/killing.texi:1.27
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--- emacs/man/killing.texi      Wed Jun 26 18:30:46 2002
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  also be used for moving those units.  But there are other ways of
  copying text for special purposes.
  
+   On terminals that support multiple windows for multiple applications,
+ the kill commands also provide a way to select text for other applications
+ to copy, and the Emacs yank commands can access selections made by
+ other programs.
+ 
    Emacs has only one kill ring for all buffers, so you can kill text in
  one buffer and yank it in another buffer.
  
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  individual descriptions use the words @samp{kill} and @samp{delete} to
  say which kind of operation they perform.
  
+   On window systems, the most recent kill done in Emacs is also the
+ primary selection, if it is more recent than any selection you made in
+ another program.  This means that the paste commands of other window
+ applications copy the text that you killed in Emacs.
+ 
  @cindex Delete Selection mode
  @cindex mode, Delete Selection
  @findex delete-selection-mode
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  @item C-M-w
  Append next kill to last batch of killed text (@code{append-next-kill}).
  @end table
+ 
+   On window systems, if there is a current selection in some other
+ application, and you selected it more recently than you killed any
+ text in Emacs, @kbd{C-y} copies the selection instead of text
+ killed within Emacs.
  
  @menu
  * Kill Ring::         Where killed text is stored.  Basic yanking.