Comments on: Converting del.icio.us tags to lowercase

Question: Converting del.icio.us tags to lowercase

corpse — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 13:34:14 -0800

What is a quick and easy way to convert all my del.icio.us tags from CamelCase to lowercase? Googling only turned up a python script, which I know nothing about.

By: sjvilla79

sjvilla79 — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 15:10:39 -0800

Perhaps you could email Joshua or post to delicious discuss. I assume it would be simple enough for Joshua to just run a database query on your record.

By: fixedgear

fixedgear — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 15:20:06 -0800

WTF is CamelCase? Is that the same as upper case?

By: substrate

substrate — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 15:25:27 -0800

No, CamelCase is when you uppercase words in a composite word.

Like the C's in CamelCase or the M and F in MetaFilter.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 15:31:00 -0800

Also known as InterCapped for internal capitalization. CamelCase is straight outta wikis.

By: fixedgear

fixedgear — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 16:46:40 -0800

Thanks. I just learned something. My father set type by hand. He literally used to grab small letters from the lower (wooden) case and capital letters from the upper (wooden) case and then set them.

By: kindall

kindall — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 17:08:55 -0800

"CamelCase" is.

By: matildaben

matildaben — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 18:30:35 -0800

The way my brain works, I think I just always assumed that camel case was a term originated by Perl hackers, because they have a camel on the front cover of their book. But maybe it's because words look like they have a hump in the middle.

By: Good Brain

Good Brain — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 20:02:37 -0800

I've not really heard the term CamelCase until relatively recently. I went looking in Google Groups and the earliest reference I found is 1996 First edition of "Learning Perl," aka "The Camel Book," is 1991, so that might be the derivation, of course from what I can tell CamelCase isn't really classic Perl style.

I knew it long hand as "Smalltalk style capitalization" and shorthand as "InterCaps," which shows up in Google Groups as early as 1991.

I was going to say that I think it probably came out of Xerox PARC, and lo, the Wikipedia thinks so too.

Um, sorry, no idea how to tweak the tags.

By: corpse

corpse — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 20:35:14 -0800

I'm happy to have started such an interesting conversation. In the meantime I changed a lot of them manually, it will just take a few more days of off and on work.

By: delfuego

delfuego — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 20:35:40 -0800

del.icio.us has its own API, including a call to rename tags. It would be pretty trivial to put together a shell script that makes a call to the API for each of your tags... I leave that for you to do, though. :)

By: smackfu

smackfu — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 21:07:16 -0800

Do you have a lot of different tags? Becuase it's easy to just rename single tags with this interface:

http://del.icio.us/settings/username/tags

By: hardcode

hardcode — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 00:05:00 -0800

<pedant> Learning Perl is the Llama Book, Programming Perl is the Camel Book </pedant>

By: abbyladybug

abbyladybug — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 17:53:36 -0800

Use this link to skin del.icio.us. Then, there is a search and replace option. Once you've skinned del.icio.us, click on settings, then tags, then the option to replace tag names is right there.