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authorRichard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>2007-12-25 23:00:51 +0000
committerRichard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>2007-12-25 23:00:51 +0000
commitafa39f21c8d27bed08525ee0ed23692f12d2b3e2 (patch)
tree222ccc7fd86e1ad53cce823984c541ef69a08e43
parentc60d543d8bb6468ba0b652d9923acd17d2087233 (diff)
downloademacs-afa39f21c8d27bed08525ee0ed23692f12d2b3e2.tar.gz
(region-active-p): Doc fix.
-rw-r--r--lisp/simple.el5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/simple.el b/lisp/simple.el
index 0537862ab83..0cbec53fe66 100644
--- a/lisp/simple.el
+++ b/lisp/simple.el
@@ -3378,7 +3378,10 @@ This function also obeys `use-empty-active-region'."
(or use-empty-active-region (> (region-end) (region-beginning)))))
(defun region-active-p ()
- "Return t if Transient Mark mode is enabled and the mark is active."
+ "Return t if Transient Mark mode is enabled and the mark is active.
+This is NOT the best function to use to test whether a command should
+operate on the region instead of the usual behavior -- for that,
+use `use-region-p'."
(and transient-mark-mode mark-active))
(defvar mark-ring nil