[nongnu] elpa/evil faee2de4ac 3/3: flesh out comment

[ELPA Syncer]

branch: elpa/evil
commit faee2de4ac49da94798ca1eb9d18a2028759d3e1
Author: Elliott Shugerman <eeshugerman@gmail.com>
Commit: Tom Dalziel <33435574+tomdl89@users.noreply.github.com>

    flesh out comment
---
 evil-common.el | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/evil-common.el b/evil-common.el
index afa731eadd..4afbeeb9c3 100644
--- a/evil-common.el
+++ b/evil-common.el
@@ -2150,7 +2150,10 @@ The following special registers are supported.
               (let ((what (if (eq register ?*) 'PRIMARY 'CLIPBOARD)))
                 (if (version<= "29" emacs-version)
                     (gui--selection-value-internal what)
-                  ;; the following code is modified from 
`x-selection-value-internal'
+                  ;; The following code is based on 
`x-selection-value-internal'
+                  ;; (now `gui--selection-value-internal') circa Emacs 24. 
We're
+                  ;; unsure why exactly it's duplicated here, and it's possible
+                  ;; it needn't be for newer versions of Emacs.
                   (let ((request-type (or (and (boundp 'x-select-request-type)
                                                x-select-request-type)
                                           '(UTF8_STRING COMPOUND_TEXT STRING)))