From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:01:53 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (region-active-p): Doc fix.
X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-23.0.90~2299
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c6f3e207056906eaa33899965891fee5d2c3540d;p=emacs.git

(region-active-p): Doc fix.
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diff --git a/lisp/simple.el b/lisp/simple.el
index 7327a88c362..7cd321564d9 100644
--- a/lisp/simple.el
+++ b/lisp/simple.el
@@ -3515,9 +3515,9 @@ This function also obeys `use-empty-active-region'."
 
 (defun region-active-p ()
   "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'."
+To test whether a command should operate on the region instead of
+the usual behavior, use `use-region-p' instead.  That returns nil
+for empty regions when `use-empty-active-region' is nil."
   (and transient-mark-mode mark-active))
 
 (defvar mark-ring nil