Re: Quote marked region [utilities]

[Jean Louis]

* 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.