From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:36:16 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: * display.texi (Managing Overlays): Document copy-overlay (Bug#4549).
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* display.texi (Managing Overlays): Document copy-overlay (Bug#4549).
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diff --git a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog
index 5ff71492944..d121127f31e 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2009-09-25  David Engster  <deng@randomsample.de>
+
+	* display.texi (Managing Overlays): Document
+	copy-overlay (Bug#4549).
+
 2009-09-22  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
 
 	* internals.texi (Building Emacs): Mention preloaded-file-list.
diff --git a/doc/lispref/display.texi b/doc/lispref/display.texi
index d1f44352a99..8feb8ea8c81 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/display.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/display.texi
@@ -1267,6 +1267,14 @@ the specified region.  If @var{start} and/or @var{end} are omitted or
 @code{nil}, that means the beginning and end of the buffer respectively.
 Therefore, @code{(remove-overlays)} removes all the overlays in the
 current buffer.
+@end defun
+
+@defun copy-overlay overlay
+This function returns a copy of @var{overlay}.  The copy has the same
+endpoints and properties as @var{overlay}.  However, the marker
+insertion type for the start of the overlay and for the end of the
+overlay are set to their default values (@pxref{Marker Insertion
+Types}).
 @end defun
 
   Here are some examples: