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diff --git a/doc/lispref/strings.texi b/doc/lispref/strings.texi index 3c764da4e2b..ff108511f23 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/strings.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/strings.texi @@ -620,6 +620,14 @@ If your system does not support a locale environment, this function behaves like @code{string-lessp}. @end defun +@defun string-version-lessp string1 string2 +This function compares strings lexicographically, except it treats +sequences of numerical characters as if they comprised a base-ten +number, and then compares the numbers. So @samp{foo2.png} is +``smaller'' than @samp{foo12.png} according to this predicate, even if +@samp{12} is lexicographically ``smaller'' than @samp{2}. +@end defun + @defun string-prefix-p string1 string2 &optional ignore-case This function returns non-@code{nil} if @var{string1} is a prefix of @var{string2}; i.e., if @var{string2} starts with @var{string1}. If @@ -813,16 +821,16 @@ arguments @var{objects} are the computed values to be formatted. The characters in @var{string}, other than the format specifications, are copied directly into the output, including their text properties, -if any. +if any. Any text properties of the format specifications are copied +to the produced string representations of the argument @var{objects}. @end defun @defun format-message string &rest objects @cindex curved quotes @cindex curly quotes This function acts like @code{format}, except it also converts any -curved single quotes in @var{string} as per the value of -@code{text-quoting-style}, and treats grave accent (@t{`}) and -apostrophe (@t{'}) as if they were curved single quotes. +grave accents (@t{`}) and apostrophes (@t{'}) in @var{string} as per the +value of @code{text-quoting-style}. A format that quotes with grave accents and apostrophes @t{`like this'} typically generates curved quotes @t{‘like this’}. In |