From: Leo Butler <Leo.Butler@umanitoba.ca>
To: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: capitalize some words in a region
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2023 16:11:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wmw9x8lt.fsf@t14.reltub.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sf6xj8i0.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (Uwe Brauer's message of "Fri, 29 Sep 2023 17:37:27 +0200")
On Fri, Sep 29 2023, Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to capitalize certain words in a region, but would like to
> leave out words like and/or for and of like in
>
>
> journal of mathematical physics
>
> Should be turn into to
>
>
> Journal of Mathematical Physics
>
> But not into
>
>
> Journal Of Mathematical Physics
>
> Any idea how to do this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Uwe Brauer
The way that comes to mind is to capitalize the phrase and then go back,
with `case-fold-search' set to nil, and downcase the words you want
downcased by `replace-regexp':
M-x replace-regexp \b\(O[nN]\|O[fF]\|...\)\b RET \,(downcase \1) RET
If you do this enough, it seems like a good candidate for a keyboard macro.
HTH,
Leo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-29 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-29 15:37 capitalize some words in a region Uwe Brauer
2023-09-29 16:04 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-09-29 18:08 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2023-09-29 19:47 ` Uwe Brauer
2023-10-01 19:17 ` Howard Melman
2023-10-02 8:05 ` Uwe Brauer
2023-09-29 16:11 ` Leo Butler [this message]
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