From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 07:00:03 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (Killing): Document that kill commands in a read-only buffer do
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(Killing): Document that kill commands in a read-only buffer do
put text into the kill ring, even if they don't kill it.
---

diff --git a/man/killing.texi b/man/killing.texi
index d790e78bae6..c297622188f 100644
--- a/man/killing.texi
+++ b/man/killing.texi
@@ -42,6 +42,11 @@ Setting the variable @code{kill-read-only-ok} to a non-@code{nil} value
 overrides that.  To alert you to the fact that you killed read-only
 text, Emacs prints a message to that effect in the echo area.
 
+  When @code{kill-read-only-ok} is @code{nil}, Emacs beeps if you try to
+kill text in a read-only buffers, but it puts the text you wanted to
+kill into the kill ring anyway.  This means you can use kill commands to
+copy text from read-only buffers.
+
   The delete commands include @kbd{C-d} (@code{delete-char}) and
 @key{DEL} (@code{delete-backward-char}), which delete only one character at
 a time, and those commands that delete only spaces or newlines.  Commands