emacs capitalizing every word in replacement how to prevent

emacs capitalizing every word in replacement how to prevent

[John Covici]

Hi.  I have a shell script like this
JawMuscles1
followed by other similar names.

I wanted to replace each item in the file like this:

Replace regexp (default ^.*$ → cd jawstemp; unzip ../\&.zip;mkdir
../\&;mv * ..\&;cd ..

but Emacs capitalized every word in the replaced lines, including all
the commands -- it replaced  unzip with Unzip etc.

I have never seen this before.  The file is type shellscript.

How to prevent this?

Thanks for any suggestions.

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Re: emacs capitalizing every word in replacement how to prevent

[tomas]

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On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 07:25:56AM -0500, John Covici wrote:
> Hi.  I have a shell script like this
> JawMuscles1
> followed by other similar names.
> 
> I wanted to replace each item in the file like this:
> 
> Replace regexp (default ^.*$ → cd jawstemp; unzip ../\&.zip;mkdir
> ../\&;mv * ..\&;cd ..
> 
> but Emacs capitalized every word in the replaced lines, including all
> the commands -- it replaced  unzip with Unzip etc.
> 
> I have never seen this before.  The file is type shellscript.
> 
> How to prevent this?

Try to set the variable `case-replace' to nil. Cf the section
"Replace Command and Lax Matches" in the Emacs manual for a
more detailed story.

You can set this variable's value via the Customize interface.

Cheers
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Re: emacs capitalizing every word in replacement how to prevent

[John Covici]

Where in the customization do I go to find this one?

On Thu, 24 Nov 2022 07:53:52 -0500,
<tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> 
> [1  <text/plain; utf-8 (quoted-printable)>]
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 07:25:56AM -0500, John Covici wrote:
> > Hi.  I have a shell script like this
> > JawMuscles1
> > followed by other similar names.
> > 
> > I wanted to replace each item in the file like this:
> > 
> > Replace regexp (default ^.*$ → cd jawstemp; unzip ../\&.zip;mkdir
> > ../\&;mv * ..\&;cd ..
> > 
> > but Emacs capitalized every word in the replaced lines, including all
> > the commands -- it replaced  unzip with Unzip etc.
> > 
> > I have never seen this before.  The file is type shellscript.
> > 
> > How to prevent this?
> 
> Try to set the variable `case-replace' to nil. Cf the section
> "Replace Command and Lax Matches" in the Emacs manual for a
> more detailed story.
> 
> You can set this variable's value via the Customize interface.
> 
> Cheers
> -- 
> t
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Re: emacs capitalizing every word in replacement how to prevent

[John Covici]

I  looked up case-replace and it was concerned with preserving case in
replacements.  In my example case was actually changed in the
replacement string, so how would this apply?

On Thu, 24 Nov 2022 08:42:15 -0500,
John Covici wrote:
> 
> Where in the customization do I go to find this one?
> 
> On Thu, 24 Nov 2022 07:53:52 -0500,
> <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> > 
> > [1  <text/plain; utf-8 (quoted-printable)>]
> > On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 07:25:56AM -0500, John Covici wrote:
> > > Hi.  I have a shell script like this
> > > JawMuscles1
> > > followed by other similar names.
> > > 
> > > I wanted to replace each item in the file like this:
> > > 
> > > Replace regexp (default ^.*$ → cd jawstemp; unzip ../\&.zip;mkdir
> > > ../\&;mv * ..\&;cd ..
> > > 
> > > but Emacs capitalized every word in the replaced lines, including all
> > > the commands -- it replaced  unzip with Unzip etc.
> > > 
> > > I have never seen this before.  The file is type shellscript.
> > > 
> > > How to prevent this?
> > 
> > Try to set the variable `case-replace' to nil. Cf the section
> > "Replace Command and Lax Matches" in the Emacs manual for a
> > more detailed story.
> > 
> > You can set this variable's value via the Customize interface.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > -- 
> > t
> > [2 signature.asc <application/pgp-signature (7bit)>]
> > No public key for 05C82CF57AD1DA46 created at 2022-11-24T07:53:46-0500 using DSA
> 
> -- 
> Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
> How do
> you spend it?
> 
>          John Covici wb2una
>          covici@ccs.covici.com
> 

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Re: emacs capitalizing every word in replacement how to prevent

[tomas]

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On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 08:42:15AM -0500, John Covici wrote:

[on case-replace; please, don't top post, pretty please]

M-x customize-variable [RET] case-replace [RET]

Cheers
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Re: emacs capitalizing every word in replacement how to prevent

[tomas]

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On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 09:00:01AM -0500, John Covici wrote:
> I  looked up case-replace and it was concerned with preserving case in
> replacements.  In my example case was actually changed in the
> replacement string, so how would this apply?

Try it out if you don't believe me :)

[NOTE] "preserving case" is a relative term: obviously the documenter's
POV is "the other" wrt you.

Cheers
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Re: emacs capitalizing every word in replacement how to prevent

[John Covici]

Yes, it did work, thanks all for your replies.

On Thu, 24 Nov 2022 09:12:43 -0500,
tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> 
> [1  <text/plain; utf-8 (quoted-printable)>]
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 09:00:01AM -0500, John Covici wrote:
> > I  looked up case-replace and it was concerned with preserving case in
> > replacements.  In my example case was actually changed in the
> > replacement string, so how would this apply?
> 
> Try it out if you don't believe me :)
> 
> [NOTE] "preserving case" is a relative term: obviously the documenter's
> POV is "the other" wrt you.
> 
> Cheers
> -- 
> t
> [2 signature.asc <application/pgp-signature (7bit)>]
> No public key for 05C82CF57AD1DA46 created at 2022-11-24T09:12:37-0500 using DSA

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