From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Help with upcasing words first char Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:42:24 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <873a7aulfj.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87ab1ru9zt.fsf@newsguy.com> <87fxbjwquk.fsf@galatea.local> <7cpralutkh.fsf@pbourguignon.anevia.com> <874orwsu8s.fsf@newsguy.com> <87iqgcvkg7.fsf@galatea.local> <87ab1n52ma.fsf@newsguy.com> <87bpm3vc7c.fsf@galatea.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251596605 17904 80.91.229.12 (30 Aug 2009 01:43:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:43:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 30 03:43:19 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MhZRu-00071q-DR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 03:43:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37341 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MhZRt-0007xc-Ru for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:43:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MhZRX-0007wH-TM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:42:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MhZRS-0007w4-HH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:42:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42691 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MhZRS-0007w1-Eg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:42:50 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:58195) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MhZRS-0008BZ-0N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:42:50 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MhZRN-0006uO-GE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 03:42:45 +0200 Original-Received: from c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 03:42:45 +0200 Original-Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 03:42:45 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.96 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:fV3NcpsHHdt+DNBjMEabapThFVw= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:67651 Archived-At: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes: > Using goto-char, you can position the cursor at the position you want: > > (defun camelize-region (start end) > (interactive "r") > (capitalize-region start end) > (let ((end (let ((m (make-marker))) (set-marker m end) m))) > (unwind-protect > (progn > (goto-char start) > (while (re-search-forward "[ \t]+" end t) > (delete-region (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0)))) > (goto-char end) > (set-marker end nil)))) Very nice... thanks again.