3 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 6395bb1aa20..95d81345548 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2014-02-10  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>
 
+        * w32-common-fns.el (x-get-selection): Doc fix.
+        * select.el (x-get-selection): Doc fix.  (Bug#15109)
+
         * face-remap.el (face-remap-add-relative)
         (face-remap-remove-relative, face-remap-reset-base)
         (face-remap-set-base): Call force-mode-line-update to redisplay
diff --git a/lisp/select.el b/lisp/select.el
index fe302c988d7..c4d020343af 100644
--- a/lisp/select.el
+++ b/lisp/select.el
@@ -89,7 +89,8 @@ all upper-case names.  The most often used ones, in addition to
 `PRIMARY', are `SECONDARY' and `CLIPBOARD'.
 
 DATA-TYPE is usually `STRING', but can also be one of the symbols
-in `selection-converter-alist', which see."
+in `selection-converter-alist', which see.  This argument is
+ignored on MS-Windows and MS-DOS."
   (let ((data (x-get-selection-internal (or type 'PRIMARY)
                                         (or data-type 'STRING)))
         coding)
diff --git a/lisp/w32-common-fns.el b/lisp/w32-common-fns.el
index df3818668f1..72946f9bb96 100644
--- a/lisp/w32-common-fns.el
+++ b/lisp/w32-common-fns.el
@@ -79,7 +79,8 @@ all upper-case names.  The most often used ones, in addition to
 `PRIMARY', are `SECONDARY' and `CLIPBOARD'.
 
 DATA-TYPE is usually `STRING', but can also be one of the symbols
-in `selection-converter-alist', which see."
+in `selection-converter-alist', which see.  This argument is
+ignored on MS-Windows and MS-DOS."
   (get 'x-selections (or type 'PRIMARY)))
 
 ;; x-selection-owner-p is used in simple.el