From emacs -Q:
Type several lines of all-caps words in the scratch buffer, one word per line, e.g.:
ABC
DEF
GGG
M-x replace-regexp or query-replace-regexp.
regexp: \(.*\)
replace: \,(downcase \1)
Emacs reports all occurrences have been replaced, but nothing has
actually changed.
Oddly, the same recipe does work for \,(capitalize \1) (using initial lowercase words of course)
In GNU Emacs 29.1 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, cairo
version 1.16.0, Xaw scroll bars) of 2023-10-12 built on Au14-1
Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corporation', version 11.0.12010000
System Description: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Configured using:
'configure --with-harfbuzz --with-tree-sitter --with-native-compilation
--with-sqlite3 --with-x-toolkit=lucid'
Configured features:
ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GPM GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG
JSON LCMS2 LIBOTF LIBSELINUX LIBSYSTEMD LIBXML2 M17N_FLT MODULES
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THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER WEBP X11 XDBE XIM XINPUT2
XPM LUCID ZLIB
Important settings:
value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
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Minor modes in effect:
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eldoc-mode: t
show-paren-mode: t
electric-indent-mode: t
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auto-composition-mode: t
auto-encryption-mode: t
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Load-path shadows:
None found.
Features:
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dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting cairo x-toolkit
xinput2 x multi-tty make-network-process native-compile emacs)
Memory information:
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