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Q&A Autocapitalize/correct two connected words?

Two possible approaches. Before you start typing your text. You can set up a list of auto-complete words. From Project -> Project Settings -> autocomplete. After you typed. You can use the ...

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#2: Initial revision by (deleted user) · 2019-12-08T11:24:38Z (almost 5 years ago)
Two possible approaches.

1. **Before you start typing your text.** You can set up a list of auto-complete words. From Project -\> Project Settings -\> autocomplete.

2. **After you typed.** You can use the find command in Edit -\> Find. Set the Find Options to Regular Expressions (regex). Place the desired Regular expression in the top box, and Slime Monster in the lower box. Make sure you tick the ignore case box and you are good to go. _If you are worried that the regex will have false positives, you can click on Next and only replace those occurrences that look wrong._

## A bit on Regex.

This requires some knowledge of what regex can do. The one fitting your request could be a search for the two words containing the letters of Slime and Monster.

    \b[slime]+\b \b[monster]+\b

Note that this will also match any pair of words whose letters are included in slime and in monster, e.g. "me so" and "see soon"

A bit more complex regex, which is also more accurate, could be:

    \b(?=\b(?:[^slime]*[slime]){4,6}[^slime]*\b)[slime]{4,6}\b \b(?=\b(?:[^monster]*[monster]){5,8}[^monster]*\b)[monster]{5,8}\b

[slime]{4,6} tries to match any word made from the letters in slime, with length between 4 and 6. The whole thing tries to match a pair of words, the first of which is between 4 and 6 letters and is composed only of letters from "slime", and the second is between 5 and 8 letters and is composed only of the letters found in "monster". Note that there is a space in between the two, which is also used in the matching.

As written above, do not forget to check the ignore case if you want to correct the capitalization as well.

This answer was inspired by the excellent SO answer: [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4389644/regex-to-match-string-containing-two-names-in-any-order](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4389644/regex-to-match-string-containing-two-names-in-any-order)

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-03-19T16:58:52Z (over 5 years ago)
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