Re: emacs capitalizing every word in replacement how to prevent

[tomas]

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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