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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>, "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: [PATCH] Replace latin-1-specific case-manipulation
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 21:25:45 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b5545b1f-2488-4943-a063-09c25ace7b9b@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ef81hkwb.fsf@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.

I could be mistaken, but my recollection is that
at least commands like `capitalize-word' and
`upcase-word' were used back then.



  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-21  5:25 UTC|newest]

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 [this message]
2019-02-21 14:37         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-21  9:30       ` Mattias Engdegård
     [not found] <<23807310-A2F9-4322-8A2C-03A63EFFD2AE@acm.org>
     [not found] ` <<83va1egypa.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]   ` <<779A26F9-FE8F-477E-81BD-86200977E81D@acm.org>
     [not found]     ` <<83ef81hkwb.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]       ` <<b5545b1f-2488-4943-a063-09c25ace7b9b@default>
     [not found]         ` <<834l8xgqbx.fsf@gnu.org>
2019-02-21 15:23           ` Drew Adams

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