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> Since my earlier reply I've carried out a few tests and decided that a
> non-discriminating keyword convertor is not such a good idea
> after all.
> I used it on a random sample of half-a-dozen Component Pascal source
> code examples written by different authors and compared the conversion
> with the original. They should have been identical. However, that was
> not the case as they all happen to make use of lower-case
> equivalents of
> keywords as valid identifiers, e.g. 'type', 'mod', 'size' and
> 'of'. Time
> taken fixing up the mistakenly converted identifiers negates any
> advantage of the tool.
>
> A simpler less-automatic solution is a case-conversion 'hotkey' which
> just converts the current selected word. I think you'll find such a
> function in Fyodor Tkachov's Epse21 project in Helmut Zinn's Component
> Pascal Collection:
>
> http://www.zinnamturm.de/
>
I've never had an issue with uppercase keywords - it doesn't strike me as
particularly important either way. However, if one were to include automatic
uppercasing in the editor I should think it ought to be syntax-directed, and
convert only the keywords that are in the expected place in the text. The
conversion should take place when the programmer enters the separator, such
as space, ';', end-of-text and so on.
It's not something I would like though. I've always hated syntax-directed
editors - they're just another version of Clippy.
Bob
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