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Clarify the doc string of 'yank'

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* lisp/simple.el (yank): Mention 'current-kill' in the doc string,
so that people could find all the gory details of what is "the most
recent kill" for this purpose.  (Bug#40375)
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Eli Zaretskii 2020-04-14 08:38:00 +03:00
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@ -5109,10 +5109,11 @@ property, in the way that `yank' does."
(defun yank (&optional arg)
"Reinsert (\"paste\") the last stretch of killed text.
More precisely, reinsert the most recent kill, which is the
stretch of killed text most recently killed OR yanked. Put point
at the end, and set mark at the beginning without activating it.
With just \\[universal-argument] as argument, put point at beginning, and mark at end.
More precisely, reinsert the most recent kill, which is the stretch of
text most recently killed OR yanked, as returned by `current-kill' (which
see). Put point at the end, and set mark at the beginning without
activating it. With just \\[universal-argument] as argument, put point
at beginning, and mark at end.
With argument N, reinsert the Nth most recent kill.
This command honors the `yank-handled-properties' and