[Change Case] Preserve the punctuations such as period when changing to upper case

[Garfield-Finch]

Extension

https://www.raycast.com/erics118/change-case

Description

The current implementation of changing text to uppercase removes symbols such as . and '. Would it be a better approach to retain the symbols as they are and only adjust the case of the textual content?

Who will benefit from this feature?

All users of the Change Case Extention who change cases for sentences or paragraphs.

Anything else?

No response

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🔔 @erics118 @pernielsentikaer @nagauta @PWrzesinski @yug2005 you might want to have a look.

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[PWrzesinski]

Personally the current behavior is what I need and what I would expect, however I understand you have a different use case. It's true that the current way is more suited to software development than writing plain sentences.

I'm thinking perhaps there could be an "alternative" behavior that would work like you describe? This could be set in the extension settings or even have a different shortcut, like alt+enter. Would that cover your use case? It might require a bit of an effort, I guess all the individual transformations would have to be updated separately, because each one will probably need slightly different behavior. I mean commas and quotes are fine, but what about dashes in kebab-case and some other characters that are used to separate words? This would need to be carefully considered.

@erics118 @pernielsentikaer what do you think?

[erics118]

This can easily be done.

This is the current behavior for upper case:

1. convert to "no case", ie snake_case -> snake case, or KEBAB-UPPER-CASE-> kebab upper case
2. uppercase everything (with .toUpperCase())

I can change it so that the new behavior simply just skips step 1, and uppercases everything directly. I can also add this change for lower case too. But, It would be more confusing in certain scenarios for sentence/title case.