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authorNoam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>2017-06-29 19:42:32 -0400
committerNoam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>2017-06-29 19:42:32 -0400
commit169532b0ebc3acb0b1c943d0b3d8b569cd57ca4b (patch)
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downloademacs-169532b0ebc3acb0b1c943d0b3d8b569cd57ca4b.tar.gz
; Merge: Backtrace printing improvements (Bug#6991)
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diff --git a/doc/emacs/killing.texi b/doc/emacs/killing.texi
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@@ -519,6 +519,10 @@ when exiting Emacs; if you wish to prevent Emacs from transferring
data to the clipboard manager, change the variable
@code{x-select-enable-clipboard-manager} to @code{nil}.
+ Since strings containing NUL bytes are usually truncated when passed
+through the clipboard, Emacs replaces such characters with ``\0''
+before transfering them to the system's clipboard.
+
@vindex select-enable-primary
@findex clipboard-kill-region
@findex clipboard-kill-ring-save