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bug#7563: 23.2; `split-string-and-unquote' mis-documented / purpose uncl
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Dave Abrahams |
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bug#7563: 23.2; `split-string-and-unquote' mis-documented / purpose unclear |
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Sat, 11 Dec 2010 14:41:52 -0500 |
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On Dec 11, 2010, at 1:50 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> I believe the manual says precisely that. If the problem is with
>>> mentioning "shell", would removing that solve this difficulty?
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>> It would certainly help
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> Done.
Thanks. I'm away from the docs ATM but IIRC this stuff is documented in a
section on interacting with the shell but it seems from the way you describe
the behavior that this function is all about Emacs string processing and should
be elsewhere or it will mislead people