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diff --git a/lisp/select.el b/lisp/select.el
index bada2e70e75..0f43ce05822 100644
--- a/lisp/select.el
+++ b/lisp/select.el
@@ -1,12 +1,11 @@
;;; select.el --- lisp portion of standard selection support
+;; Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007,
+;; 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
;; Maintainer: FSF
;; Keywords: internal
-;; Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007,
-;; 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-;; Based partially on earlier release by Lucid.
-
;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
;; GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
@@ -24,11 +23,20 @@
;;; Commentary:
+;; Based partially on earlier release by Lucid.
+
;;; 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
@@ -58,11 +66,11 @@ The default value is nil."
(set symbol value)))
(defvar next-selection-coding-system nil
- "Coding system for the next communication with other X clients.
+ "Coding system for the next communication with other programs.
Usually, `selection-coding-system' is used for communicating with
-other X clients. But, if this variable is set, it is used for
-the next communication only. After the communication, this
-variable is set to nil.")
+other programs (X Windows clients or MS Windows programs). But, if this
+variable is set, it is used for the next communication only.
+After the communication, this variable is set to nil.")
(declare-function x-get-selection-internal "xselect.c"
(selection-symbol target-type &optional time-stamp))
@@ -175,36 +183,6 @@ are not available to other programs."
(symbolp data)
(integerp data)))
-;;; Cut Buffer support
-
-(declare-function x-get-cut-buffer-internal "xselect.c")
-
-(defun x-get-cut-buffer (&optional which-one)
- "Return the value of one of the 8 X server cut-buffers.
-Optional arg WHICH-ONE should be a number from 0 to 7, defaulting to 0.
-Cut buffers are considered obsolete; you should use selections instead."
- (x-get-cut-buffer-internal
- (if which-one
- (aref [CUT_BUFFER0 CUT_BUFFER1 CUT_BUFFER2 CUT_BUFFER3
- CUT_BUFFER4 CUT_BUFFER5 CUT_BUFFER6 CUT_BUFFER7]
- which-one)
- 'CUT_BUFFER0)))
-
-(declare-function x-rotate-cut-buffers-internal "xselect.c")
-(declare-function x-store-cut-buffer-internal "xselect.c")
-
-(defun x-set-cut-buffer (string &optional push)
- "Store STRING into the X server's primary cut buffer.
-If PUSH is non-nil, also rotate the cut buffers:
-this means the previous value of the primary cut buffer moves to the second
-cut buffer, and the second to the third, and so on (there are 8 buffers.)
-Cut buffers are considered obsolete; you should use selections instead."
- (or (stringp string) (signal 'wrong-type-argument (list 'stringp string)))
- (if push
- (x-rotate-cut-buffers-internal 1))
- (x-store-cut-buffer-internal 'CUT_BUFFER0 string))
-
-
;; Functions to convert the selection into various other selection types.
;; Every selection type that Emacs handles is implemented this way, except
;; for TIMESTAMP, which is a special case.