teach emacs to capitalize at the beginning of a sentence?

teach emacs to capitalize at the beginning of a sentence?

[Matt Price]

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Hi Folks,

I'm using abbrev-mode and loving it but wondered whether it was possible to
teach emacs to capitalize words atthe beginning of a sentence?  This would
be a big help as it's a major source of errors in my typing.  If anyone has
any ideas, either of an existing package that does this, or how to write a
simple function that checks for ".  [a-z] and changes it to ".  [A-Z]" I'd
appreciate it.  thanks very much!

matt

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Re: teach emacs to capitalize at the beginning of a sentence?

[Tassilo Horn]

Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Matt,

> I'm using abbrev-mode and loving it but wondered whether it was
> possible to teach emacs to capitalize words atthe beginning of a
> sentence?  This would be a big help as it's a major source of errors
> in my typing.  If anyone has any ideas, either of an existing package
> that does this, or how to write a simple function that checks for ".
> [a-z] and changes it to ".  [A-Z]" I'd appreciate it.  thanks very
> much!

Ok, here we go.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(defun th-captialize-sentences-first-word ()
  (interactive)
  (save-excursion
    (beginning-of-thing 'sentence)
    (capitalize-word 1)))
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Simply bind it to some convenient key like `M-C'.  When pressed, the
first word of the current sentence will be capitalized.  You might need
to add a (require 'thingatpt) before that function in case that's not
already loaded.

Bye,
Tassilo