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From: "Andrea Vettorello" <andrea.vettorello@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Capitalize letter after brace
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:28:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7d5440240810142228x4350a155t8af02cc70ad68117@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vdvuh2mv.fsf@rosslaird.info>

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Ross A. Laird <ross@rosslaird.info> wrote:
> This is the type of thing that would take me a day to figure out on my
> own (though, probably, I could eventually figure it out), but most
> readers of this group can probably throw me a line in a few seconds:
>
> I have some index entries in my tex file that are capitalized
> \index{Capitalized} and others that are not \index{not}. I want to make
> all entries consistently capitalized. This means a search for the first
> character after the opening index brace and a change of its case. What's
> the magic formula (please...).
>

Not tested, probably needs some escaping (I'm not sure if the opening
brace should be escaped), anyway something like:

M-x replace-regexp Enter
Replace regexp: index{\(w\) Enter
with: index{\,(capitalize \1) Enter

The above should capitalize the first word after every "index{" in
your tex file.


-- 
Andrea




  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-15  5:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-15  5:02 Capitalize letter after brace Ross A. Laird
2008-10-15  5:28 ` Andrea Vettorello [this message]
2008-10-15  5:44   ` Ross A. Laird
     [not found] <mailman.1086.1224046973.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-15  5:29 ` Niels Giesen

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