-shell might. The tokens are split on white space and on the
-characters @code{()<>;&|$}, and shell quoting conventions are
-obeyed.
+shell might. The tokens are split on the characters in the
+@var{history_word_delimiters} variable,
+and shell quoting conventions are obeyed.
+@end deftypefun
+
+@deftypefun {char *} history_arg_extract (int first, int last, const char *string)
+Extract a string segment consisting of the @var{first} through @var{last}
+arguments present in @var{string}. Arguments are split using
+@code{history_tokenize}.