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| author | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> | 2010-10-23 19:22:43 -0700 |
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| committer | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> | 2010-10-23 19:22:43 -0700 |
| commit | f5f2561564816a522723d9579684fb05c9fe143a (patch) | |
| tree | 1d6c1c2ed36e5342cf2d69f3bb5010e5b1e259a8 /lisp/select.el | |
| parent | 3646b86d0ed250ed89d5cf40b731ef55fb46f052 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-f5f2561564816a522723d9579684fb05c9fe143a.tar.gz | |
Sync docs of selection-coding-system between C and Lisp.
* src/w16select.c (syms_of_win16select) <selection-coding-system>:
* src/w32select.c (syms_of_w32select) <selection-coding-system>:
Sync docs with select.el.
* lisp/select.el (selection-coding-system): Sync doc with C versions.
Diffstat (limited to 'lisp/select.el')
| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/select.el | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/select.el b/lisp/select.el index 2b97ca483b1..23541963438 100644 --- a/lisp/select.el +++ b/lisp/select.el @@ -28,8 +28,15 @@ ;;; Code: (defcustom selection-coding-system nil - "Coding system for communicating with other X clients. + "Coding system for communicating with other programs. +For MS-Windows and MS-DOS: +When sending or receiving text via selection and clipboard, the text +is encoded or decoded by this coding system. The default value is +the current system default encoding on 9x/Me, `utf-16le-dos' +\(Unicode) on NT/W2K/XP, and `iso-latin-1-dos' on MS-DOS. + +For X Windows: When sending text via selection and clipboard, if the target data-type matches with the type of this coding system, it is used for encoding the text. Otherwise (including the case that this |