On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 4:07 PM, P S <zosw...@gmail.com> wrote: > It defaults per filetype based on the tables in DMSXTF, which haven't been > updated in a coon's age, maybe two coons. Defaulting to CASE MIXED has > always seemed to make sense to me, especially if the tables in DMSXTF still > applied (i.e., if the ones that are explicitly CASE UPPER stayed that way).
I can't think of any file type for which I am happy to have XEDIT make my text uppercase when I didn't do that myself. I normally cry out lout when that happens (which is why we refer to ALL CAPS text as SHOUTING :-) PS Could the "feature" stem from the days where folks had terminals that displayed only capitals and you would waste hours finding the mistyped characters? Rob
