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diff --git a/doc/emacs/frames.texi b/doc/emacs/frames.texi index df4f0beff9e..0ecf6f68d8c 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/frames.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/frames.texi @@ -58,10 +58,10 @@ so that you can use many of the features described in this chapter. @end menu @node Cut and Paste -@section Killing and Yanking on Graphical Displays +@section Cutting and Pasting on Graphical Displays - This section describes commands for selecting a region, killing, and -yanking using the mouse. + This section describes commands for selecting a region, cutting, and +pasting using the mouse. @menu * Mouse Commands:: Moving, cutting, and pasting, with the mouse. @@ -248,6 +248,14 @@ has no ``memory'': each time you save something in the primary selection, either in Emacs or in another X application, the previous contents of the primary selection are lost. +@cindex MS-Windows, and primary selection + MS-Windows provides no primary selection, but Emacs emulates it +within a single Emacs session, by storing the selected text +internally. Therefore, all the features and commands related to the +primary selection work on Windows as they do on X, for cutting and +pasting within the same session, but not across Emacs sessions or with +other applications. + Whenever you kill some text using a command such as @kbd{C-w} (@code{kill-region}), or copy it into the kill ring using a command such as @kbd{M-w} (@code{kill-ring-save}), that text is also saved in |