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[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/man/killing.texi
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Richard M. Stallman |
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[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/man/killing.texi |
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Wed, 26 Jun 2002 18:30:46 -0400 |
Index: emacs/man/killing.texi
diff -c emacs/man/killing.texi:1.26 emacs/man/killing.texi:1.27
*** emacs/man/killing.texi:1.26 Wed Sep 12 17:01:34 2001
--- 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.
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