Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by tokamak-teapot 1728 days ago
Lots of old documents with rules about writing ridiculously large parts of them in ALL CAPS. For no reason at all, that I can determine.
2 comments

All-caps mode exists as a safe space for FORTRAN programmers.
Notepad++ has a toolbar option that will uppercase all the currently selected text. Write a paragraph normally and then uppercase it with one click.
Lots of tools have this. IntelliJ has it mapped to ctrl shift U by default I think.
In vim gU makes the selection/motion uppercase, gu makes it lowercase and ~ toggles each of its characters' cases.
~