From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: case-replace
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:20:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv8vwdld1s.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=LW=BSq3EZb5nEziXo15pNfc8Xa2q7hQh-YVz_@mail.gmail.com> (John Yates's message of "Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:17:48 -0400")
> I often find myself replacing a FROM string with a TO of identical
> length. In such a case I would really appreciate it if case were
> preserved at each character position. E.g. replacing 'ab' by 'xy'
> would give me:
> ab -> xy
> Ab -> Xy
> AB -> XY
> aB -> xY <<<<
If you replace foobar with mrtoto, it would then replace FooBar with
MrtOto whereas you probably wanted MrToto instead.
There's no way for Emacs to know what you really mean here, so the only
solution I can see is to somehow let the user tell Emacs what she wants,
but I'm not sure how best to do that:
- prompt the user when encountering a new mixed-case word.
- let the user specify a case-insensitive replacement of FooBar by MrToto
(currently if you specify such a replacement, Emacs will do it is
a case-sensitive way).
- something else?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-17 20:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-17 2:17 case-replace John Yates
2011-03-17 7:00 ` case-replace Leo
2011-03-17 14:54 ` case-replace John Yates
2011-03-18 9:06 ` case-replace Leo
2011-03-17 20:20 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-03-18 12:42 ` case-replace John Yates
2011-03-18 15:23 ` case-replace Andreas Röhler
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