From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Some case conversion commands don't recognize the apostrophe Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 08:22:45 -0700 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3E0092C5.8020606@ihs.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1040225002 17654 80.91.224.249 (18 Dec 2002 15:23:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 15:23:22 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Og2Z-0004aW-00 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 16:23:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Og2U-0001VH-05 for gnu-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:23:14 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Og2M-0001Uw-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:23:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Og2H-0001Tj-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:23:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mailbox.ucsd.edu ([132.239.1.58] helo=mailbox6.ucsd.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Og2G-0001Pi-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:23:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.fu-berlin.de (mail.fu-berlin.de [160.45.11.165]) by mailbox6.ucsd.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gBIFMe1c056324 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 07:22:41 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by mail.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.2.0.98) from Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (160.45.10.36) with esmtp id ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 16:22:40 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.fu-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 16:22:40 +0100 (MET) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: 170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 25 X-Orig-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 X-Orig-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1040224959 1707933 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us X-MailScanner: PASSED (v1.2.7 53008 gBIFMe1c056324 mailbox6.ucsd.edu) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:4062 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:4062 David desJardins wrote: > Eli Zaretskii writes: > >>>`M-c' (`capitalize-word') does not capitalize a word that is preceded >>>by an apostrophe when the cursor is at or before the apostrophe; >>>instead, the cursor moves to just after the word but the word is not >>>capitalized. >>>[...] >>>`M-u' (`upcase-word') continues past a word's trailing apostrophe. >>> >>I think that's because in Text mode, the apostrophe is considered a >>word-constituent character. >> > > Right. The question is: should capitalize-word capitalize the first > letter, or the first character? It seems reasonable to me to think that > the capitalization of a word like 'em should be 'Em. I.e., capitalize > the first letter, not the first word-constituent. I agree. -- Kevin Rodgers