From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4AEB2D1D.7050402@conducive.org> Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:14:53 +0800 From: W B Hacker User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090823 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: <2AC4018ADBC89F5A056B73E2@[192.168.1.2]> <4AEB22A7.7010109@conducive.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] sed question (OT) (OT) (OT) (OT) (OT)(OT)(OT)(OT)(OT)(OT)(OT)(OT)(OT)(OT) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 94b9ccca-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Tim Newsham wrote: >> Call me a Dinosaur, but - so long as it is ASCII or EBCDIC it is >> relatively trivial to implement that in hardware AND NOT have the >> issue of altering any but the first two words AND NOT have issues >> where there is only one word or a numeral or punctuation or >> hidden/control character rather than alpha. > > You should have added an extra "(OT)" to the subject line. > I'm adding a few more just to be fair. > >> Could have built it in less time than this thread has been running... > > then what have you been doing all this time? > >> Bill > > Tim Newsham > http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/ > > Honestly? Trying to determine what a valid USE for capitalizing exactly the first 'n' words on a line might be. Especially as it calls for ONE or TWO but never THREE or more. Document 'sideheads', maybe?? - but those may not be limited to 2 words. The need is as puzzling as some of the solutions.. Bill