Instead of delete the word and retype all the letters once again with opposite case, I'd like to find some smart way in vim to solve the problem . Need your help, thanks in advance .
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It's
g~iw
with the cursor on the word.
Key:
gflag (I couldn't find a good reference for this...)~toggle case; alternatively useUfor to-upper orufor to-loweriwselects the Inner Word, i.e. the word that the cursor is on;ipselects the Inner Paragraph
See Michael Jakl's Vim Introduction and Tutorial - concise and has some nice graphical explanations.
martin clayton
2010-02-17 23:34:34
@martin : thanks for your help , it works . but could you explain your command a little, then we can learn more from this topic .
Haiyuan Zhang
2010-02-17 23:54:16
`g~`: This changes the case of whatever text-motion comes next. `iw` is the text motion for "inner-word", so `g~iw` changes the case of what vim defines as a word (pretty much what english defines as a word). enter `:help motion` for more info in vim.
Bryan Ross
2010-02-18 00:24:53
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You can select the word with visual mode (viw) and press ~, it switches case for all letters in the word.
kemp
2010-02-17 23:34:54
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~ (tilde) key. Should change the case of whatever is under the cursor. Works in insert and visual mode.
prevailrob
2010-02-17 23:34:59
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Hi,
you can do this in normal mode: vEU (having the cursor at the beginning of the word or pressing b to move it there)
v - go to visual
E - go to end of the word
U - make the visual selection uppercase
Instead of the U you can do u for lowercase or ~ for case flip.
fikovnik
2010-02-17 23:37:01
if the cursor is in the middle of a word you can use `viwU` or `viwu`. `iw` means 'the entire word'
Nathan Fellman
2010-02-18 10:01:51
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g~ followed by a "motion" will flip the case of the letters.
gU will upper-case them
gu will lower case them
So
g~w will flip the case of the letters to the end of the current word.
guG will lower case the letters to the end of the file
gU$ will upper case the letters to the end of the current line.
bmb
2010-02-18 00:13:44