From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Help with upcasing words first char
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:15:18 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <738bf58e-6938-445c-98ca-51c3abc6ae58@l35g2000pra.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.5143.1250956067.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On Aug 22, 8:46 am, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote:
> I need to do a pile of editing that involves:
>
> Removing a space between words and upcasing the first letter of the
> next word like:
>
> Some example
> to
> SomeExample
>
> I went thru M-x apropos <RET> <case> <RET>
>
> But didn't find a likely candidate ... or at least none appeared to be
> the right thing for what I want.
>
> So far I've been
>
> Ctrl <right arrow> To get to the space between words
> Ctrl-d Ctrl-d To remove the space and the leading lowercase char of
> the next word
>
> Shift <Char> to replace with uppercase
>
> Then back to Ctrl <right arrow>
>
> Where can I save some keyboard strokes?
you can easily do it with query-replace-regexp.
the regexp you should use is:
“ \([[:lower:]]\)”
and the replacement is
“\,(upcase \1)”
some detail here:
• Text Pattern Matching in Emacs
http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_regex.html
• Find and Replace with Emacs
http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_find_replace.html
Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/
☄
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2009-08-22 17:42 ` Help with upcasing words first char Joost Kremers
2009-08-22 18:15 ` Xah Lee [this message]
2009-08-22 15:46 Harry Putnam
2009-08-22 18:40 ` Harry Putnam
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2009-08-22 19:02 ` A.Politz
2009-08-22 19:32 ` Joost Kremers
2009-08-22 21:29 ` John A Pershing Jr
2009-08-22 20:12 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-08-24 13:08 ` Harry Putnam
2009-08-24 13:59 ` Harry Putnam
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2009-08-24 15:20 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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2009-08-24 23:52 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-08-25 15:34 ` Harry Putnam
2009-08-25 19:35 ` Harry Putnam
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2009-08-25 21:02 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-08-30 1:42 ` Harry Putnam
2009-08-23 18:14 ` B. T. Raven
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