Re: Quote marked region [utilities]

[Eli Zaretskii]

> 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