Re: [emacs-humanities] How can I `upcase-word` for ALL words in the buffer without typing the word twice?

[Joost]

On Tue, 4 Apr 2023, at 21:50, David Hedlund wrote:
> Normally I'd use.
>
> M-x RET replace-string RET parser RET PARSER
>
> M-x RET replace-string RET args RET ARGS
>
> However, I don't like the idea of typing the word twice (lowercase, then 
> uppercase),

The doc string for `replace-regexp` has this:

```
In interactive calls, the replacement text may contain ‘\,’
followed by a Lisp expression used as part of the replacement
text.  Inside of that expression, ‘\&’ is a string denoting the
whole match, ‘\N’ a partial match, ‘\#&’ and ‘\#N’ the respective
numeric values from ‘string-to-number’, and ‘\#’ itself for
‘replace-count’, the number of replacements occurred so far, starting
from zero.
```

So what you can do is:

M-x replace-regexp RET
parser RET
\,(upcase \&) RET

Place point at the start of the buffer (or wherever you want to start the 
replacement), since the command works from point.

HTH


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Joost Kremers
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