# HG changeset patch
# User Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
# Date 1224532468 0
# Node ID 4db83db4783abd8825145d771a9acddaed1ef5f6
# Parent  2873fd9bd9635c24313950fab96e81798361d95c
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diff -r 2873fd9bd963 -r 4db83db4783a etc/NEWS
--- a/etc/NEWS	Mon Oct 20 19:49:33 2008 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Mon Oct 20 19:54:28 2008 +0000
@@ -1599,9 +1599,16 @@
 *** `window-full-width-p' returns t if a window is as wide as its
 frame.
 
-*** `split-string-and-unquote' does (what?)
++++
+*** `split-string-and-unquote' splits a string into a list of substrings
+on the boundaries of a given delimiter, and unquotes the substrings that
+are quoted.  Useful for taking apart shell commands.
 
-*** `combine-and-quote-strings' does (what?)
++++
+*** `combine-and-quote-strings' produces a single string from a list of strings
+sticking a separator string in between each pair, and quoting those
+strings that include the separator as their substring.  Useful for
+consing shell command lines from the individual arguments.
 
 *** `image-refresh' refreshes all images associated with a given image
 specification.