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| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/simple.el | 5 |
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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 |