From: Horacio Suarez <horaciosuarez@hotmail.com>
To: <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: search for any two consecutive uppercase characters
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:13:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <SNT114-W62BF156641A8B773C63C76B4050@phx.gbl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7c63cramic.fsf@pbourguignon.anevia.com>
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Hello:
Thankyou very much for yours answers.
Please excuse my ignorance but I dont know exactly how tu use the code.
I paste it in my .emacs file. To use I type M-x "capitalize-uppercase-words"
then appears a mesage: "The mark is not set now, so there is no region".
What shoul I do?
Thanks again
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Horacio Suarez
> From: pjb@informatimago.com
> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:09:31 +0200
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: search for any two consecutive uppercase characters
>
> "Colin S. Miller" <no-spam-thank-you@csmiller.demon.co.uk> writes:
>
> > Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> >> Horacio Suarez <horaciosuarez@hotmail.com> writes:
> >>
> >>> Hello all:
> >>>
> >>> Is there a way to search for any two consecutive uppercase characters? In example "PÉREZ" or
> >>> "GONZÁLEZ"
> >>
> >> Yes, this is difficult, because of the accented letters. There is no
> >> [:upper:] in emacs regular expressions. It might be possible to build
> >> a syntax table or something to identify uppercase letters including
> >> accented ones, but AFAIK, there's nothing built in. The simpliest
> >> would be to prepare a regular expression explicitely listing all the
> >> characters you'd want, something like:
> >>
> >> "\\<[A-ZÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝÞ]+\\>"
> >>
> > Isn't
> > C-u C-s (aka isearch-forward-regexp)
> > [A-ZÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝÞ]\{2,\}
> > better?
>
> FSVO "better".
>
> > here \{2,\}
> > means two (or more) of the preceding expression.
>
> They don't mean the same.
> My expression means: words containing only uppercase letters.
> Your expression means: any occurence of two or more consecutive uppercase letters.
>
> Is 0x42AB a word? (I'd say no, it's a number in C syntax for hexadecimal).
> Is NeXTstep a word? (Yes, but it's not all uppercase).
>
>
> --
> __Pascal Bourguignon__
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[not found] <mailman.4480.1250115925.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-08-12 22:38 ` search for any two consecutive uppercase characters Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-08-12 23:11 ` A.Politz
2009-08-14 3:50 ` doitian
2009-08-15 12:01 ` Horacio Suarez
2009-08-13 12:23 ` Colin S. Miller
2009-08-13 13:09 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-08-13 14:13 ` Horacio Suarez [this message]
2009-08-13 17:24 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.4515.1250173016.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-08-13 21:54 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-08-12 22:25 Horacio Suarez
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