From: Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com>
To: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
Cc: org-mode-email <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: new rule to capitalise the first word in a sentence? but how?
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 12:00:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lh3y576k.fsf@skimble.plus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJcAo8ttHKUjeD5ZQkLwHboGdDVfjuk-3=RGdBONAtCcz8phKQ@mail.gmail.com> (Samuel Wales's message of "Wed, 27 Apr 2016 14:15:37 -0700")
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Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:
> very old code, maybe can be adjusted slightly to do what you want.
>
> (defun alpha-capitalize-sentences ()
> (interactive)
> (let ((b (region-beginning))
> (e (region-end))
> ;;i always use double spaces but i want sentence movement
> ;;to be liberal -- that is to count more things as
> ;;sentences.
> (sentence-end-double-space nil)
> ;;need to make it understand org headlines etc. also.
> ;;don't know if this will help. will fail on *bold*.
> ;;non-idempotent. use a vector function.
> (sentence-end-without-space
> (concat sentence-end-without-space "*")))
> (save-excursion
> (goto-char b)
> (loop
> while (< (point) (max b e))
> do
> (when (y-or-n-p "capitalize this sentence?")
> (capitalize-word 1))
> ;;forward-sentence-incl-org (headlines, items, other)
> do
> (let ((sentence-end-without-period t))
> (forward-sentence))))
> ;;; (replace-regexp "i" "I" t (region-beginning) (region-end))
> (save-excursion
> (perform-replace "i" "I"
> nil t t nil nil
> b e))))
Thanks for this Samuel, it does work, but I'm trying to find a way of
auto-capitalising my sentences as I write, whereas this only does it
when its called 'after' the event. But thanks anyway.
Thanks
Sharon.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-28 11:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-27 19:36 new rule to capitalise the first word in a sentence? but how? Sharon Kimble
2016-04-27 20:26 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-04-28 10:58 ` Sharon Kimble
2016-04-28 13:11 ` Uwe Brauer
2016-04-27 21:15 ` Samuel Wales
2016-04-28 11:00 ` Sharon Kimble [this message]
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