+2001-02-06 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
+
+ * simple.el (kill-line): Doc fix.
+
2001-02-05 Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
* loadup.el: Revert last two changes -- bootstrapping works with
If `kill-whole-line' is non-nil, then this command kills the whole line
including its terminating newline, when used at the beginning of a line
with no argument. As a consequence, you can always kill a whole line
-by typing \\[beginning-of-line] \\[kill-line]."
+by typing \\[beginning-of-line] \\[kill-line].
+
+If the buffer is read-only, Emacs will beep and refrain from deleting
+the line, but put the line in the kill ring anyway. This means that
+you can use this command to copy text from a read-only buffer."
(interactive "P")
(kill-region (point)
;; It is better to move point to the other end of the kill