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From: doitian <doit.ian@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: search for any two consecutive uppercase characters
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:50:08 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d700b1db-1b8c-4505-a9d4-20f4f5c1ca2b@y10g2000prg.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9bf1bce2-64af-4e92-8dd6-8d29c79947cd@v36g2000yqv.googlegroups.com

On Aug 13, 7:11 am, "A.Politz" <poli...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 13, 12:38 am, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
> wrote:
>
> > There is no
> > [:upper:] in emacs regular expressions.
>
> That' actually not true, as described here
> (info "(elisp)Char Classes")
>
> -ap

Yes, [:upper:] is available. A common error is using it directly.
Indeed, it must be put in a char class like [[:upper:]].

The problem can be solved using query-replace-regexp

Search Pattern: \<[[:upper:]]\{2,\}\>
Replace:  \,(capitalize \&)


  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-14  3:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.4480.1250115925.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-08-12 22:38 ` search for any two consecutive uppercase characters Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-08-12 23:11   ` A.Politz
2009-08-14  3:50     ` doitian [this message]
2009-08-15 12:01       ` Horacio Suarez
2009-08-13 12:23   ` Colin S. Miller
2009-08-13 13:09     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-08-13 14:13       ` Horacio Suarez
2009-08-13 17:24         ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found]       ` <mailman.4515.1250173016.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-08-13 21:54         ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-08-12 22:25 Horacio Suarez

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