changeset 98946:d862f80c7616

(Creating Strings): Add xrefs to `split-string-and-unquote' and `combine-and-quote-strings'.
author Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
date Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:49:03 +0000
parents aaf4c3b3bb3e
children 2873fd9bd963
files doc/lispref/strings.texi
diffstat 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/doc/lispref/strings.texi	Mon Oct 20 19:47:54 2008 +0000
+++ b/doc/lispref/strings.texi	Mon Oct 20 19:49:03 2008 +0000
@@ -272,7 +272,9 @@
 For information about other concatenation functions, see the
 description of @code{mapconcat} in @ref{Mapping Functions},
 @code{vconcat} in @ref{Vector Functions}, and @code{append} in @ref{Building
-Lists}.
+Lists}.  For concatenating individual command-line arguments into a
+string to be used as a shell command, see @ref{Shell Arguments,
+combine-and-quote-strings}.
 @end defun
 
 @defun split-string string &optional separators omit-nulls
@@ -357,6 +359,10 @@
 (split-string "ooo" "\\|o+" t)
      @result{} ("o" "o" "o")
 @end example
+
+If you need to split a string that is a shell command, where
+individual arguments could be quoted, see @ref{Shell Arguments,
+split-string-and-unquote}.
 @end defun
 
 @defvar split-string-default-separators