No way to all-caps just the beginning of a word

[arxanas]

Classification: Bug

Reproducibility: Always

Summary

Suppose you have the dictionary

"PEUD": "pid",
"TPAOEUL": "file",
"KPA*TS": "{*<}",
"H*PB": "{^-^}",
"TK-LS": "{^^}",

and you try to write PID-file:

PEUD/KPA*TS/H*PB/TK-LS/TPAOEUL

This actually produces

PID-FILE

Instead of

PID-file

In general there doesn't seem to be a way to make capitalizing the previous part of the word not affect the next part of the word.

Version

Plover version 4.0.0.dev5 @ ff51971
Installed via: source

Configuration

ProductName:    Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.12.6
BuildVersion:   16G29

[benoit-pierre]

This is an intentional change from previous versions, the question is do we want something like this to work:

    def test_retro_upper7(self):
        r'''
        'TEFT': 'test',
        "W-G": "{^ing with}",
        'RUP': '{*<}',

        TEFT/RUP/W-G  " TESTING with"
        '''

?

[arxanas]

@benoit-pierre: What's the recommended way of writing a word like "PID-file", then? I generally use retroactive capitalization instead of preemptive capitalization, and it doesn't seem like there's a good way to accomplish this anymore, since I can't even use TK-LS to cancel the capitalization.

[TheaMorin]

I think the example in the OP is more realistic than the "test^ing with" issue. I'd probably still expect
"TESTing with" due to the location of RUP.

[arxanas]

This also appears to be manifesting when I'm coding. I tried to write this

  return SomeEnum::SOME_VALUE;
}

public

but got

  return SomeEnum::SOME_VALUE;
}

PUBLIC

where I typed

SOM/RUND/VAOUL/KPA*TS # SOME_VALUE
STPH*FPLT  # ;
STPH*B/STPH*B  # down-arrow a few times
R*R/R*R
PLIK

where R*R is defined to be {MODE:RESET}{^}\n{^}. There's even an explicit mode-reset in there. I also tried issuing explicit mode-resets with my KLAO*ER stroke.

What exactly am I supposed to do at this point? Go back up to the previous point in the code and delete everything I just typed and then try again, this time without using capitalize-last-word? Give up and restart Plover? It's not even as if I can reset the current mode and continue at the current position.

[TheaMorin]

Fixed by #865

[gdwaynewarner]

My Phoenix Theory Medical dictionary has P*-EUD for "PID." So if I wanted "PID-file," I would just stroke that first outline, the hyphen stroke (P-F), and, of course, follow it up with my stroke for "file."

Looks like you're working way too hard for an outline that is actually in steno-order! :o)