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26.2.90; view-mode: Update docstring |
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Sat, 20 Jul 2019 15:45:13 +0200 |
The mention to kill buffers in this context is likely an original
implementation detail; nowadays, Emacs saves the killed text in variables.
Either way for the purpose to document this mode, the way how the text
is stored is not relevant.
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From: Tino Calancha <address@hidden>
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2019 15:23:38 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] * lisp/view.el (view-mode): Update docstring.
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lisp/view.el | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lisp/view.el b/lisp/view.el
index 3d423f1748..5e6f3e2caa 100644
--- a/lisp/view.el
+++ b/lisp/view.el
@@ -386,8 +386,8 @@ view-mode
if ARG is omitted or nil.
When View mode is enabled, commands that do not change the buffer
-contents are available as usual. Kill commands insert text in
-kill buffers but do not delete. Most other commands beep and
+contents are available as usual. Kill commands save text but
+do not delete it from the buffer. Most other commands beep and
tell the user that the buffer is read-only.
\\<view-mode-map>
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In GNU Emacs 26.2.90 (build 4, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.5)
Repository revision: 021f32cca1b9082e7219b06aee28c00c4323a72a
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12004000
System Description: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
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Re: bug#36741: 26.2.90; view-mode: Update docstring |
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Fri, 26 Jul 2019 17:42:26 +0200 (CEST) |
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Alpine 2.21 (DEB 202 2017-01-01) |
On Thu, 25 Jul 2019, Noam Postavsky wrote:
Tino Calancha <address@hidden> writes:
`kill-rectangle' won't save the text in the kill ring by default.
I think your patch is good, you should push to emacs-26 (perhaps also
mention the above point in the commit message though).
Pushed into emacs-26 branch with commit 'Update view-mode docstring'
(d4c49875eaae3078ea3b51cc7b72ae3403cb2c04)
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