word-modifying commands

[Barry Margolin <BARMAR at MIT-MC>]

In ZWEI in System 79.24, ZMail 40.7, Remote-File 2.0, LMFILE-Remote 5.3,
microcode 849, 60 Hz., on Lisp Machine Five:

If I just typed a word (haven't even typed a space), I should be able to
use one of the word-modifying commands on that word without having to
specify a numeric argument of -1.  I am referring to commands like M-U
and M-L.  I think that this behavior would more useful than the current
one, which gives one the ability to uppercase a word starting from the
middle.  I almost always want to capitalize or uppercasify the word I
just typed.  Perhaps an explicit numeric argument should get the current
behavior (M-1 M-U does what M-U does now, while just M-U uppercasifies
the entire "current" word).
					barmar