From 76a05775d83f87c9ce17a2f16883b04e253c41ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Glenn Morris Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 08:51:39 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Explain combine-and-quote-strings, split-string-and-unquote. Some re-ordering. --- etc/NEWS | 29 ++++++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index 64ad1929ada..ebc04fb173e 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -42,15 +42,6 @@ below. Emacs tries to warn you about these through `bad-packages-alist'. * Changes in Emacs 22.2 -** `browse-url-emacs' loads a URL into an Emacs buffer. Handy for *.el URLs. - -** `bad-packages-alist' will warn about external packages that are known -to cause problems in this version of Emacs. - -** The values of `dired-recursive-deletes' and `dired-recursive-copies' -have been changed to `top'. This means that the user is asked once, -before deleting/copying the indicated directory recursively. - ** In Image mode, whenever the displayed image is wider and/or higher than the window, the usual keys for moving the cursor cause the image to be scrolled horizontally or vertically instead. @@ -67,6 +58,15 @@ Windows installations. Users of software which modifies the behaviour of Windows to cause focus to follow the mouse will now need to explicitly set this variable. +** `bad-packages-alist' will warn about external packages that are known +to cause problems in this version of Emacs. + +** The values of `dired-recursive-deletes' and `dired-recursive-copies' +have been changed to `top'. This means that the user is asked once, +before deleting/copying the indicated directory recursively. + +** `browse-url-emacs' loads a URL into an Emacs buffer. Handy for *.el URLs. + ** The command gdba has been removed as gdb works now for those cases where it was needed. In text command mode, if you have problems before execution has started, use M-x gud-gdb. @@ -122,9 +122,16 @@ as its frame. ** The new function `image-refresh' refreshes all images associated with a given image specification. -** The new function `split-string-and-unquote' does (what?) +** The new function `combine-and-quote-strings' concatenates a list of strings +using a specified separator. If a string contains double quotes, they +are escaped in the output. + +** The new function `split-string-and-unquote' performs the inverse operation to +`combine-and-quote-strings', i.e. splits a single string into a list +of strings, undoing any quoting added by `combine-and-quote-strings'. +(For some separator/string combinations, the original strings cannot +be recovered.) -** The new function `combine-and-quote-strings' does (what?) * Installation Changes in Emacs 22.1 -- 2.39.2