Re: How can I stop Emacs from messing up my code by changing case

[Björn Lindström]

"anne001" <anne@wjh.harvard.edu>:

> Emacs keep changing cases on me. Sometimes it will take a word and put
> a capital letter. That messes up ruby because words with capital
> letters are supposed to be class... or it takes end and makes it End
> and things no longer work.

It sounds like you are invoking the function capitalize-word (bound to
`M-c') by mistake.

The next time this happens, you can press `C-h l' to get a list of your
last 100 input keystrokes, and see if there are any `M-c' or `ESC c'
in there.