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:
> 
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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
> -- 
> t
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