[PLUG] Emacs: change word case in CSV file

Ali Corbin ali.corbin at gmail.com
Sun Jan 29 00:31:19 UTC 2017


On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 3:32 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
wrote:

>    Some agency databases store all words in uppercase and that's how they
> are
> downloaded to a .csv file.
>
>    I tried creating a macro that would capitalize all uppercase words by
> using M-c M-f to capitalize the word under the cursor then move to the next
> word. Emacs apparently sees the field-separating comma as the next word, so
> I added a right arrow press between the M-c and M-f. This results in a
> mish-mash where some words are changed and others aren't because multiple
> words within a field are not separated by a comma.
>
> In my version of emacs, in fundamental mode, M-c alone does just what you
want.  I think.

That is, if I put my cursor at the beginning of:

ASDF ASDF,ASDF ASDFA, ADSFA A,ASDF

and hit M-c about 6 times, I end up with:

Asdf Asdf,Asdf Asdfa, Adsfa A,Asdf



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