[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/etc/NEWS,v

[Eli Zaretskii]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/emacs
Module name:    emacs
Changes by:     Eli Zaretskii <eliz>    08/10/20 19:54:30

Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/etc/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.1890
retrieving revision 1.1891
diff -u -b -r1.1890 -r1.1891
--- NEWS        20 Oct 2008 01:53:54 -0000      1.1890
+++ NEWS        20 Oct 2008 19:54:28 -0000      1.1891
@@ -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.