From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 18447-done@debbugs.gnu.org, Randy Yates <yates@digitalsignallabs.com>
Subject: bug#18447: 24.3; transfer case doesn't work in some instances
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 04:48:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkm=vim71_9hJaUrrWfdWFypY7z1hVEKTWnfpjSSBSMKiqw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871trjwgg3.fsf@digitalsignallabs.com>
Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
> 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.
I think that there is no bug here, and we have seen no further comments
in 5 years. I'm therefore closing this bug. If that's incorrect,
please reopen the bug report.
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-10 17:09 bug#18447: 24.3; transfer case doesn't work in some instances Randy Yates
2014-09-29 0:45 ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-30 2:48 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
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