WordPerfect for Unix Character Terminals

Re:WordPerfect for Unix Character Terminals by throw0101c on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @07:19AM (#35537871)

> until you get the case you want

The GP was talking about a particular type of formatting:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_case

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Re:WordPerfect for Unix Character Terminals by tambourine_man on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @07:48AM (#35538162)

Yeah, I love vim, but that’s not its forte

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Re:WordPerfect for Unix Character Terminals by boffinAudio on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @09:05AM (#35539008)

    : help case

To turn one line into title caps, make every first letter of a word uppercase:

    :s/\v<(.)(\w*)/\u\1\L\2/g

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Re:WordPerfect for Unix Character Terminals by vulcan01 on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @09:25AM (#35539264)

That's not title case - you don't capitalize words such as a, the, of, etc. unless they are at the beginning of the title.

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Re:WordPerfect for Unix Character Terminals by tablespoon on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @10:20AM (#35540126)

> That's not title case - you don't capitalize words such as a, the, of, etc. unless they are at the beginning of the title.

Exactly. Capitalizing every letter is the lazy, half-ass pseudo title case that I always have to correct. Unfortunately its becoming normalized because many major companies that should know better don't even bother to do it right.

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