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Re: Quote marked region [utilities]
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Jean Louis |
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Re: Quote marked region [utilities] |
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Sun, 28 Mar 2021 13:38:57 +0300 |
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* Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [2021-03-28 13:30]:
> > Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 13:21:15 +0300
> > From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> >
> > > See combine-and-quote-strings. (Did you try using "M-x apropos" to
> > > find something like that?)
> >
> > `combine-and-quote-strings' seem handy for lists of strings. It is not
> > interactive function that works on region, and my function does not
> > yet work on list of strings
>
> But it's trivial to make use of combine-and-quote-strings, coupled
> with buffer-substring, to produce a command that works on the region,
> no?
>
> > M-x apropos is definitely useful, but I have not tried searching that
> > way. I have tried in a different way by using `C-h f' with joker
> > symbol `*' and `quote' with TAB, for example, it looks like:
>
> That's much less efficient. Try this instead:
>
> M-x apropos RET string quote RET
Definitely, I have to use apropos.