From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: mattiase@acm.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace latin-1-specific case-manipulation
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 16:37:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <834l8xgqbx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b5545b1f-2488-4943-a063-09c25ace7b9b@default> (message from Drew Adams on Wed, 20 Feb 2019 21:25:45 -0800 (PST))
> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 21:25:45 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> > I think it's simply because Emacs didn't have
> > 'capitalize' back then. That code survived
> > since 1990. So of course it's OK to use
> > capitalize now.
>
> FWIW, I think I used `capitalize', `capitalize-word',
> and `capitalize-region' long ago, in the mid 1980s.
In what program? Emacs was first released "in mid 1980s", did you use
Emacs before version 18.
> I could be mistaken, but my recollection is that
> at least commands like `capitalize-word' and
> `upcase-word' were used back then.
For ASCII, most probably.
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-20 14:26 [PATCH] Replace latin-1-specific case-manipulation Mattias Engdegård
2019-02-20 17:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-20 20:47 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-02-21 3:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-21 5:25 ` Drew Adams
2019-02-21 14:37 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-02-21 9:30 ` Mattias Engdegård
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2019-02-21 15:23 ` Drew Adams
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