Re: Help with upcasing words first char

[Xah Lee]

On Aug 22, 8:46 am, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote:
> I need to do a pile of editing that involves:
>
> Removing a space between words and upcasing the first letter of the
> next word like:
>
>  Some example
>   to
>  SomeExample
>
> I went thru M-x apropos <RET> <case> <RET>
>
> But didn't find a likely candidate ... or at least none appeared to be
> the right thing for what I want.
>
> So far I've been
>
>  Ctrl <right arrow>  To get to the space between words
>  Ctrl-d Ctrl-d  To remove the space and the leading lowercase char of
>                 the next word
>
>  Shift <Char>   to replace with uppercase
>
> Then back to Ctrl <right arrow>
>
> Where can I save some keyboard strokes?


you can easily do it with query-replace-regexp.

the regexp you should use is:

“ \([[:lower:]]\)”

and the replacement is

“\,(upcase \1)”

some detail here:

• Text Pattern Matching in Emacs
  http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_regex.html

• Find and Replace with Emacs
  http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_find_replace.html

  Xah
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