(Creating Strings): Add xrefs to `split-string-and-unquote' and

`combine-and-quote-strings'.

2 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog
index ade2722c77a..4effa167368 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2008-10-20  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>
+
+        * processes.texi (Shell Arguments): Document `split-string-and-unquote'
+        and `combine-and-quote-strings'.
+
+        * strings.texi (Creating Strings): Add xrefs for them.
+
 2008-10-19  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>
 
         * elisp.texi (Top): Make descriptive text for "Reading File Names"
diff --git a/doc/lispref/strings.texi b/doc/lispref/strings.texi
index 37c19fc4f3e..1b57e665388 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/strings.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/strings.texi
@@ -272,7 +272,9 @@ printed form is with @code{format} (@pxref{Formatting Strings}) or
 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 @@ practice:
 (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