Converting Case

[ccstone]

@skillet

The options in QuicKeys seem much more user friendly and what I can find in Keyboard Maestro seems more like a programers mind to figure out what is going to happen and what to change. See how intuitive (at least to me) the macros are for this in QuicKeys.

Hey Skillet,

I used QuicKeys from 1986 until 2012 (when it became clear it would never be updated).

I had been running Keyboard Maestro concurrently on my system since 2003, and it was still quite an effort to get my hundreds of macros switched over.

Changing the case of text with Keyboard Maestro may not be as intuitive as it is in QuicKeys, but it's not difficult

Title Case → Selected Text.kmmacros (2.8 KB)

Titlecase does not automatically change uppercase letters to lower-case, and here's why:

Potential bug with Titlecase (or new user error)

Title Case is based on John Gruber’s Title Case script and works this way so that you can title things like “the CIA operation” without ending up with “The Cia Operation”. If you really want to force the latter behaviour, then you simply need to use the Lower Case filter first.

My macro does explicitly lowercase the text before transforming it to titlecase.

If you search the wiki for "change case", or “titlecase”, or “lowercase”, or “uppercase” you'll find the Filter Clipboard and Filter Variable actions.

-Chris