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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2009-07-24 16:32:23 +0000
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2009-07-24 16:32:23 +0000
commit446b78fbf4c85420e68532bb02143033ef2092e1 (patch)
tree3d4e94e6b31a31ca332b465a4fabad270323c43c
parent88d64285b63d1788306078240586768eec33d08f (diff)
downloademacs-446b78fbf4c85420e68532bb02143033ef2092e1.tar.gz
(x-set-selection): Doc fix.
-rw-r--r--lisp/select.el5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/select.el b/lisp/select.el
index 979189997c3..dad6d6e961f 100644
--- a/lisp/select.el
+++ b/lisp/select.el
@@ -134,7 +134,10 @@ The return value is DATA.
Interactively, this command sets the primary selection. Without
prefix argument, it reads the selection in the minibuffer. With
-prefix argument, it uses the text of the region as the selection value ."
+prefix argument, it uses the text of the region as the selection value.
+
+Note that on MS-Windows, primary and secondary selections set by Emacs
+are not available to other programs."
(interactive (if (not current-prefix-arg)
(list 'PRIMARY (read-string "Set text for pasting: "))
(list 'PRIMARY (buffer-substring (region-beginning) (region-end)))))