RE: search for any two consecutive uppercase characters

[Horacio Suarez <horaciosuarez@hotmail.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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