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#3888
Some variables get the wrong, platform-specific, documentation
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Reported by: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:35:05 UTC
Severity: normal
Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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#3888: Some variables get the wrong, platform-specific, documentation
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> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:59:52 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: 3888 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
>
> > From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
> > Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, 3888 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
> > Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:33:28 -0400
> >
> > As a work-around, I changed the affected doc-strings so that the
> > different versions all say the same thing. Eli, could you check if this
> > works OK on Windows?
>
> It works on Windows, thanks.
>
> However:
>
> . the doc string of x-select-enable-clipboard:
>
> (defcustom x-select-enable-clipboard t
> "Non-nil means cutting and pasting uses the clipboard.
> -This is in addition to the primary selection."
> +This is in addition to, but in preference to, the primary selection."
>
> should IMO say that on Windows this is the default, and perhaps
> also that primary selection is not accessible to other programs
> there.
>
> . the doc string of x-colors:
>
> (defvar x-colors (mapcar 'car msdos-color-values)
> - "The list of colors available on a PC display under MS-DOS.")
> + "List of available colors for graphical frames.
> +For X, the list comes from the `rgb.txt' file,v 10.41 94/02/20.
> +For Nextstep, this is a list of non-PANTONE colors returned by
> +the operating system.")
>
> incorrectly says that these are colors for graphical frames, which
> the MS-DOS display isn't.
>
> . you didn't add doc strings to x-set-selection and x-get-selection
> on w32-fns.el -- was that on purpose?
I fixed all these problems on the branch now.
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In GNU Emacs 23.0.96.1 on GNU/Linux:
emacs -Q
C-h v x-select-enable-clipboard
x-select-enable-clipboard is a variable defined in `x-win.el'.
Its value is nil
Documentation:
Non-nil means cutting and pasting uses the clipboard.
This is the default on this system, since MS-Windows does not
support other types of selections.
I guess this is because term/pc-win.elc is now in SOME_MACHINE_LISP in
src/Makefile.in. (It was not there in Emacs 22.)
Similarly, from ns-win.el, we get the following in GNU/Linux under X:
x-display-name:
The name of the Nextstep display on which Emacs was started.
x-setup-function-keys:
Set up function Keys for Nextstep for frame FRAME.
x-select-text:
Put TEXT, a string, on the pasteboard.
x-colors:
The list of colors defined in non-PANTONE color files.
xw-defined-colors:
Return a list of colors supported for a particular frame.
The argument FRAME specifies which frame to try.
The value may be different for frames on different Nextstep displays.
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