Merge "Move 'builtin-*' into a 'builtin/' subdirectory"

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
index 7438149249..afe2759951 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ strbuf API actually relies on the string being free of NULs.
 
 strbufs has some invariants that are very important to keep in mind:
 
-. The `buf` member is never NULL, so you it can be used in any usual C
+. The `buf` member is never NULL, so it can be used in any usual C
 string operations safely. strbuf's _have_ to be initialized either by
 `strbuf_init()` or by `= STRBUF_INIT` before the invariants, though.
 +
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Data structures
 
 * `struct strbuf`
 
-This is string buffer structure. The `len` member can be used to
+This is the string buffer structure. The `len` member can be used to
 determine the current length of the string, and `buf` member provides access to
 the string itself.
 
@@ -199,6 +199,10 @@ character if the letter `n` appears after a `%`.  The function returns
 the length of the placeholder recognized and `strbuf_expand()` skips
 over it.
 +
+The format `%%` is automatically expanded to a single `%` as a quoting
+mechanism; callers do not need to handle the `%` placeholder themselves,
+and the callback function will not be invoked for this placeholder.
++
 All other characters (non-percent and not skipped ones) are copied
 verbatim to the strbuf.  If the callback returned zero, meaning that the
 placeholder is unknown, then the percent sign is copied, too.
@@ -214,6 +218,13 @@ which can be used by the programmer of the callback as she sees fit.
 	placeholder and replacement string.  The array needs to be
 	terminated by an entry with placeholder set to NULL.
 
+`strbuf_addbuf_percentquote`::
+
+	Append the contents of one strbuf to another, quoting any
+	percent signs ("%") into double-percents ("%%") in the
+	destination. This is useful for literal data to be fed to either
+	strbuf_expand or to the *printf family of functions.
+
 `strbuf_addf`::
 
 	Add a formatted string to the buffer.
@@ -253,3 +264,9 @@ same behaviour as well.
 	comments are considered contents to be removed or not.
 
 `launch_editor`::
+
+	Launch the user preferred editor to edit a file and fill the buffer
+	with the file's contents upon the user completing their editing. The
+	third argument can be used to set the environment which the editor is
+	run in. If the buffer is NULL the editor is launched as usual but the
+	file's contents are not read into the buffer upon completion.