Conversion from Camel Case to Title Case does not work

[ghost]

Type: Bug

1- Create a new file 2- Happen the following string SrecParserLoadFromFile 3- Run the command "Transform to Title Case" (@command:editor.action.transformToTitlecase) 4- Text is not formated in Title Case (transformed to Srecparserloadfromfile instead of Srec_Parser_Load_From_File)

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[vscodenpa]

This feature request is now a candidate for our backlog. The community has 60 days to upvote the issue. If it receives 20 upvotes we will move it to our backlog. If not, we will close it. To learn more about how we handle feature requests, please see our documentation.

Happy Coding!

[ghost]

@andreamah @alexdima I don't get why this is put in the backlog, this is not a feature request but a bug 😔 .

[alexdima]

This is a feature request because the command is doing exactly what it advertises. The command is called "Transform to Title Case ". It takes text in the form: "SoMe teXT" and will transform each letter after each space to uppercase e.g. "Some Text". The command is not "Transform Camel Case to Title Case" so it doesn't parse the input string as CamelCase and then split it into words.

[ghost]

This is a feature request because the command is doing exactly what it advertises. The command is called "Transform to Title Case ". It takes text in the form: "SoMe teXT" and will transform each letter after each space to uppercase e.g. "Some Text". The command is not "Transform Camel Case to Title Case" so it doesn't parse the input string as CamelCase and then split it into words.

Understood, thanks

[vscodenpa]

:slightly_smiling_face: This feature request received a sufficient number of community upvotes and we moved it to our backlog. To learn more about how we handle feature requests, please see our documentation.

Happy Coding!

[mmatrosov]

Text is not formated in Title Case (transformed to Srecparserloadfromfile instead of Srec_Parser_Load_From_File)

I would expect that SrecParserLoadFromFile transformed to title case should remain unchanged. The current behavior (transforming into Parserloadfromfile) might not be what we want, but the proposed behavior (transforming into Srec_Parser_Load_From_File) is much worse. As @alexdima has properly said, the current implementation is playing it very simple - make the first letter of each word upper, make the rest of the letters lower. Why would you want underscores to appear out of nowhere?..

The feature request here, as I see it, is to alter our understanding of the term word and treat capital letters inside a sequence of letters as beginnings of new words. This sounds like a reasonable feature request to me

Another option would be to introduce a new command - Transform to CamelCase for that purpose. But I'm not sure it is worth it.

[ghost]

I would agree that the feature request could be to change the understanding of the word term.

[Keavon]

For the record, the change-case extension does this brilliantly. I consider it such a fundamentally core editing feature that it really ought to be built into VS Code for everyone to use out of the box. (Especially for users who might be using VS Code in other contexts, like Monaco editors on various web pages, who can't install extensions.)