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From: Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com>
To: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
Cc: org-mode-email <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: new rule to capitalise the first word in a sentence? but how?
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 12:00:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lh3y576k.fsf@skimble.plus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJcAo8ttHKUjeD5ZQkLwHboGdDVfjuk-3=RGdBONAtCcz8phKQ@mail.gmail.com> (Samuel Wales's message of "Wed, 27 Apr 2016 14:15:37 -0700")

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Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:

> very old code, maybe can be adjusted slightly to do what you want.
>
> (defun alpha-capitalize-sentences ()
>   (interactive)
>   (let ((b (region-beginning))
>         (e (region-end))
>         ;;i always use double spaces but i want sentence movement
>         ;;to be liberal -- that is to count more things as
>         ;;sentences.
>         (sentence-end-double-space nil)
>         ;;need to make it understand org headlines etc. also.
>         ;;don't know if this will help.  will fail on *bold*.
>         ;;non-idempotent.  use a vector function.
>         (sentence-end-without-space
>          (concat sentence-end-without-space "*")))
>     (save-excursion
>       (goto-char b)
>       (loop
>             while (< (point) (max b e))
>             do
>             (when (y-or-n-p "capitalize this sentence?")
>               (capitalize-word 1))
>             ;;forward-sentence-incl-org (headlines, items, other)
>             do
>             (let ((sentence-end-without-period t))
>               (forward-sentence))))
> ;;;    (replace-regexp "i" "I" t (region-beginning) (region-end))
>     (save-excursion
>       (perform-replace "i" "I"
>                        nil t t nil nil
>                        b e))))

Thanks for this Samuel, it does work, but I'm trying to find a way of
auto-capitalising my sentences as I write, whereas this only does it
when its called 'after' the event. But thanks anyway.

Thanks
Sharon.
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     prev parent reply	other threads:[~2016-04-28 11:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-27 19:36 new rule to capitalise the first word in a sentence? but how? Sharon Kimble
2016-04-27 20:26 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-04-28 10:58   ` Sharon Kimble
2016-04-28 13:11   ` Uwe Brauer
2016-04-27 21:15 ` Samuel Wales
2016-04-28 11:00   ` Sharon Kimble [this message]

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