[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/doc/lispref/strings.texi,v

[Eli Zaretskii]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/emacs
Module name:    emacs
Changes by:     Eli Zaretskii <eliz>    08/10/20 19:49:04

Index: strings.texi
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RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/doc/lispref/strings.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.5
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -b -r1.5 -r1.6
--- strings.texi        26 Feb 2008 18:48:00 -0000      1.5
+++ strings.texi        20 Oct 2008 19:49:03 -0000      1.6
@@ -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