From: Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 23:00:51 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (region-active-p): Doc fix.
X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-23.0.90~8831
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=afa39f21c8d27bed08525ee0ed23692f12d2b3e2;p=emacs.git

(region-active-p): Doc fix.
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diff --git a/lisp/simple.el b/lisp/simple.el
index 0537862ab83..0cbec53fe66 100644
--- a/lisp/simple.el
+++ b/lisp/simple.el
@@ -3378,7 +3378,10 @@ This function also obeys `use-empty-active-region'."
        (or use-empty-active-region (> (region-end) (region-beginning)))))
 
 (defun region-active-p ()
-  "Return t if Transient Mark mode is enabled and the mark is active."
+  "Return t if Transient Mark mode is enabled and the mark is active.
+This is NOT the best function to use to test whether a command should
+operate on the region instead of the usual behavior -- for that,
+use `use-region-p'."
   (and transient-mark-mode mark-active))
 
 (defvar mark-ring nil