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| author | Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> | 2007-11-17 10:33:27 +0000 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> | 2007-11-17 10:33:27 +0000 |
| commit | 221bb7f6773602465933b7702bc0e0032410cd40 (patch) | |
| tree | 5339ef00bac117c43361360748c7327df5a70231 | |
| parent | 48b0e82e67abee0b83abdc0469a162ad4f98daaa (diff) | |
(Communication Coding): Fix wording of last change.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/emacs/ChangeLog | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/emacs/mule.texi | 19 |
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog index edb155216d..cb40f08230 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2007-11-17 Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> + + * mule.texi (Communication Coding): Fix wording of last change. + 2007-11-16 Werner Lemberg <[email protected]> * custom.texi (Specifying File Variables), major.texi (Choosing diff --git a/doc/emacs/mule.texi b/doc/emacs/mule.texi index 4a7eceea0e..27b3284082 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/mule.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/mule.texi @@ -1087,13 +1087,18 @@ you override it by using the command again. The command @kbd{C-x coding system for the next selection made in Emacs or read by Emacs. @vindex x-select-request-type - The variable @code{x-select-request-type} specifies a data type of -selection to request for receiving the text from the other -applications. The default value is nil, which means Emacs tries -`COMPOUND_TEXT' and `UTF8_STRING', and use the more appropriate -result. You can explicitly specify the data type by setting the -variable to one of the followings: - `COMPOUND_TEXT', `UTF8_STRING', `STRING', `TEXT' + The variable @code{x-select-request-type} specifies the data type to +request from the X Window System for receiving text selections from +other applications. If the value is @code{nil} (the default), Emacs +tries @code{COMPOUND_TEXT} and @code{UTF8_STRING}, in this order, and +uses various heuristics to choose the more appropriate of the two +results; if none of these succeed, Emacs falls back on @code{STRING}. +If the value of @code{x-select-request-type} is one of the symbols +@code{COMPOUND_TEXT}, @code{UTF8_STRING}, @code{STRING}, or +@code{TEXT}, Emacs uses only that request type. If the value is a +list of some of these symbols, Emacs tries only the request types in +the list, in order, until one of them succeeds, or until the list is +exhausted. @kindex C-x RET p @findex set-buffer-process-coding-system |