From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: title-case function Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2019 15:45:52 +0200 Message-ID: <864l6rlbe7.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <09C04C7E-B175-45A5-A4E1-4E5AC14B4B66@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="7863"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 21 15:46:13 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hICnN-0001vo-1t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Apr 2019 15:46:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53419 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hICnM-00089z-3R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Apr 2019 09:46:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:59941) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hICnB-00089t-2A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Apr 2019 09:46:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hICnA-0004bQ-4a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Apr 2019 09:46:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=37464 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hICn9-0004aD-Uh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Apr 2019 09:46:00 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hICn8-0001gI-AE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Apr 2019 15:45:58 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:yhg6LNnuJIxFlxJ34EjNJ9sLE8s= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:120017 Archived-At: Paul W. Rankin wrote: > A slight improvement below. > Function title-case works on a string object, > title-case-region works on the region. > Using a temp buffer is a bit annoying > though... Hint: Make it a DWIM interface! E.g., (defun count-chars (&optional start end) (interactive (if (use-region-p) (list (region-beginning) (region-end)) (list (point-min) (point-max)) )) (message "%d" (- end start)) ) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573