From: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@math.tamu.edu>
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 22:36:25 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Update comment.
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Update comment.
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diff --git a/include/deal.II/grid/tria_accessor.h b/include/deal.II/grid/tria_accessor.h
index 36d9a27436..97cc0aec6a 100644
--- a/include/deal.II/grid/tria_accessor.h
+++ b/include/deal.II/grid/tria_accessor.h
@@ -2460,6 +2460,13 @@ public:
    *
    * The function throws an exception if the current cell is not
    * active.
+   *
+   * @note If the triangulation this function is called on is
+   * of type parallel::distributed::Triangulation, then active
+   * cells may be locally owned, ghost cells, or artificial
+   * (see @ref GlossLocallyOwnedCell , @ref GlossGhostCell , and
+   * @ref GlossArtificialCell). This function counts over all of
+   * them, including ghost and artificial active cells.
    */
   unsigned int active_cell_index () const;