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diff etc/NEWS @ 98948:4db83db4783a
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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:54:28 +0000 |
| parents | 9a7ce95b516a |
| children | df38d0b08bc1 |
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--- 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.