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bug#18447: 24.3; transfer case doesn't work in some instances
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Stefan Kangas |
Subject: |
bug#18447: 24.3; transfer case doesn't work in some instances |
Date: |
Mon, 30 Sep 2019 04:48:09 +0200 |
Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
> Thanks for the bug report. As near as I can make out, Emacs is behaving
> according to spec, as the documentation for replace-match says:
>
> "If the replaced text has only capital letters and has at least one
> multiletter word, convert NEWTEXT to all caps. Otherwise if all words are
> capitalized in the replaced text, capitalize each word in NEWTEXT."
>
> Here neither condition applies so there's no case conversion. This is how
> replace-match has behaved for a couple of decades. Perhaps it'd be useful to
> have a variant that behaves differently, but I expect we'd have to make that
> an
> upward-compatible change somehow.
I think that there is no bug here, and we have seen no further comments
in 5 years. I'm therefore closing this bug. If that's incorrect,
please reopen the bug report.
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
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