Re: What can cause downcasing in Emacs Lisp code?

[Eduardo Ochs <eduardoochs@gmail.com>]

Do you type `M-l', a.k.a., `downcase-word', by accident often? I do =/...

On Thu, 20 May 2021 at 13:50, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:
>
> I have noticed few times in last months, including today, that I find
> some strings in Emacs Lisp code downcased. I cannot know what is
> happening, as it is maybe something I press by mistake, but I cannot
> find what. I don't mark things and don't use `downcase-region'
>
> As usually all of the Emacs Lisp is anyway downcased, I can only
> observe strings within quotes to be downcased, but maybe some
>
> Then I can observe instead of this:
>
> (defun hlink-yank-note (&optional id)
>   "Kill the note and yanks into the other window"
>   (interactive)
>   (when-tabulated-id "hlinks" id
>     (hyperscope-ring id)
>     (hlink-yank-note-1 id)))
>
> I can observe following "kill" instead of "Kill"
>
> (defun hlink-yank-note (&optional id)
>   "kill the note and yanks into the other window"
>   (interactive)
>   (when-tabulated-id "hlinks" id
>     (hyperscope-ring id)
>     (hlink-yank-note-1 id)))
>
> And that downcasing makes me again edit so much more. I do not know
> how I invoke that.
>
> Maybe somebody knows?
>
>
>
> Jean
>