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diff --git a/doc/emacs/killing.texi b/doc/emacs/killing.texi index d629349b983..d453647b0c5 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/killing.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/killing.texi @@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ e.g., @kbd{C-u 4 C-y} reinserts the fourth most recent kill. On graphical displays, @kbd{C-y} first checks if another application has placed any text in the system clipboard more recently than the last Emacs kill. If so, it inserts the clipboard's text instead. -Thus, Emacs effectively treats cut or copy clipboard +Thus, Emacs effectively treats ``cut'' or ``copy'' clipboard operations performed in other applications like Emacs kills, except that they are not recorded in the kill ring. @xref{Cut and Paste}, for details. @@ -445,7 +445,7 @@ be yanked back in one place. append to the text that @kbd{M-w} copied into the kill ring. @node Cut and Paste -@section Cut and Paste Operations on Graphical Displays +@section ``Cut and Paste'' Operations on Graphical Displays @cindex cut @cindex copy @cindex paste @@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ different data type by customizing @code{x-select-request-type}. @cindex clipboard The @dfn{clipboard} is the facility that most graphical applications -use for cutting and pasting. When the clipboard exists, the kill +use for ``cutting and pasting''. When the clipboard exists, the kill and yank commands in Emacs make use of it. When you kill some text with a command such as @kbd{C-w} @@ -493,7 +493,7 @@ losing the old clipboard data---at the risk of high memory consumption if that data turns out to be large. Yank commands, such as @kbd{C-y} (@code{yank}), also use the -clipboard. If another application owns the clipboard---i.e., if +clipboard. If another application ``owns'' the clipboard---i.e., if you cut or copied text there more recently than your last kill command in Emacs---then Emacs yanks from the clipboard instead of the kill ring. @@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ change the variable @code{x-select-enable-clipboard} to @code{nil}. @vindex x-select-enable-clipboard-manager Many X desktop environments support a feature called the @dfn{clipboard manager}. If you exit Emacs while it is the current -owner of the clipboard data, and there is a clipboard manager +``owner'' of the clipboard data, and there is a clipboard manager running, Emacs transfers the clipboard data to the clipboard manager so that it is not lost. In some circumstances, this may cause a delay when exiting Emacs; if you wish to prevent Emacs from transferring |