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- From: gildea@expo.lcs.mit.edu (Stephen Gildea)
- Subject: Re: want interface to upcase_initials_region
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:32:52 GMT
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 10:43:50 -0800 (PST)
- From: MILLER@TGV.COM (Bruce R'. Miller)
-
- What's wrong with (capitalize-region (region-beginning) (region-end)) ?
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- It does something different with capitals embedded within words.
-
- For example, suppose a person who has difficulty with the Shift key
- wants to type a list of names. They might type them in all lower case
- and then run some capitalizing function over the names.
-
- Using capitalize-region works only if you don't have any names that
- have internal capitals, such as MacArthur, LeFebvre, or DeBakey. You
- would have to supply the capitalization of these names when you type
- them in, but then using capitalize-region would destroy this work.
- Hence the need for upcase-initials-region.
-
- < Stephen
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