Re: [bash-testers] Re: case modification operators misbehaviour?

[Chet Ramey]

Jan Schampera wrote:
> Chet Ramey wrote:
> 
>>> The case modification operators (for parameter expansion) seem to be
>>> puzzled.
>>>
>>> Two things I don't understand:
>>> - it seems to work word-wise (might be due to my misinterpretion of the
>>> default pattern)
>> It does work word-by-word, like the emacs-mode editing commands.  I
>> would like feedback on whether or not that works better than the
>> alternative.
> 
> Intuitively I expected it to operate on the whole content, not word by
> word. On the other hand, I have no big clue about emacs and the Bash
> emacs-mode, so other people might expect it to work like that.

You've convinced me.  The release version of bash-4.0 will implement
this by working on the entire word (or variable value, in the case of
the -u and -l options to declare), rather than splitting into words
(sequences of alphanumerics).

Chet

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