Open a new ada file "test.adb" Change the setting ada-case-identifier to ada-capitalize-word Type a test identifier, e.g. test_bad_capitalisation The expected (and documented) result is Test_Bad_Capitalisation The actual result is Test_bad_capitalisation. Note that ada-loose-case-word works as intended. In GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw scroll bars) of 2014-10-23 on gedapvl29 Windowing system distributor `Moba/X', version 11.0.11405000 System Description: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64) Configured using: `configure --prefix /VEGA/SESOME/common/install/emacs-24.4 --without-gconf --with-x-toolkit=lucid --with-wide-int --enable-gtk-deprecation-warnings' Important settings: value of $LANG: en_GB.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Ada Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: C-x C-f / t m p / t e s t . a d b n o a d a - i c a i C-x k h e l l o _ t e s t _ b a d M-x r e p o r t < return> Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. (New file) Warning: editing through the link bypasses version control Creating customization items... Creating customization items ...done Resetting customization items...done Creating customization setup...done To install your edits, invoke [State] and choose the Set operation Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils cus-edit cus-start cus-load wid-edit cl-loaddefs cl-lib ada-mode vc-git advice help-fns easymenu compile comint ansi-color ring which-func imenu align find-file time-date tooltip electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process dbusbind inotify dynamic-setting font-render-setting x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 105866 7109) (symbols 48 20709 0) (miscs 40 154 185) (strings 32 19036 3966) (string-bytes 1 551010) (vectors 16 11909) (vector-slots 8 410890 5063) (floats 8 75 473) (intervals 56 262 0) (buffers 960 14) (heap 1024 11052 633))