From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#18447: 24.3; transfer case doesn't work in some instances Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 17:45:49 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <5428ABBD.8090204@cs.ucla.edu> References: <871trjwgg3.fsf@digitalsignallabs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1411951654 18169 80.91.229.3 (29 Sep 2014 00:47:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 00:47:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 18447@debbugs.gnu.org To: Randy Yates Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 29 02:47:27 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XYP7e-000170-Hr for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2014 02:47:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33737 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XYP7e-0006zA-7Z for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 20:47:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40070) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XYP7T-0006ym-LI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 20:47:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XYP7M-0004Zo-5z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 20:47:15 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:34858) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XYP7M-0004Uc-2U for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 20:47:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XYP7G-00038A-IZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 20:47:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <871trjwgg3.fsf@digitalsignallabs.com> Resent-From: Paul Eggert Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 00:47:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 18447 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 18447-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B18447.141195156311956 (code B ref 18447); Mon, 29 Sep 2014 00:47:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 18447) by debbugs.gnu.org; 29 Sep 2014 00:46:03 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54655 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XYP6J-00036m-5N for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 20:46:03 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:49018) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XYP6F-00036F-CO for 18447@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 20:46:00 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id E98DDA60001; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 17:45:57 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id NHSLulMjivdB; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 17:45:49 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-71-177-17-123.lsanca.dsl-w.verizon.net [71.177.17.123]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4526939E8013; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 17:45:49 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.2 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:93846 Archived-At: Thanks for the bug report. As near as I can make out, Emacs is behaving according to spec, as the documentation for replace-match says: "If the replaced text has only capital letters and has at least one multiletter word, convert NEWTEXT to all caps. Otherwise if all words are capitalized in the replaced text, capitalize each word in NEWTEXT." Here neither condition applies so there's no case conversion. This is how replace-match has behaved for a couple of decades. Perhaps it'd be useful to have a variant that behaves differently, but I expect we'd have to make that an upward-compatible change somehow.