Thanks--keepcase.vim is great. So now with
:%s/firstname/\=KeepCase(submatch(0), 'LastName')/ig
I can replace all instances of
firstname with lastname
firstName with lastName
FirstName with LastName
But \=KeepCase(submatch(0), '') is a mouthful.
Not a problem; that exact expression does what I'll want 99% of the
time, so I've already mapped it to a control-key. And there are other
ways to abbreviate.
Still, this seems *such* a useful function in a programmer's editor, it
seems worthwhile to build it into the :substitute command as some kind
of optional behavior.
How about one of these:
:s/firstname/LastName/k ['k' for keepcase]
:set MaGiC
or some kind of delimiter that can be stuck into a pattern to say "use
KeepCase() on this part". OK, I know there aren't many delimiters that
are available at this point.
Does this make any sense as a possible future feature?
Marshall
On Jul 7, 2006, at 4:26 AM, Yakov Lerner wrote:
On 7/7/06, Marshall Abrams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hate to ask this because I'm sure the answer is already out there
somewhere, but I've searched help and vim.org until I was blue in the
fingers.... I could swear that I remember from a few years back that
there's a way to do this. Can't remember whether it required
something
special in the patterns or some special :set variable or loading a
plugin.
I want to the replace pattern in a substitution to be able to figure
out whether I want an upper or lower character in the replacement,
depending on whether the search pattern matched an upper or lower
character. Very useful for substitutions on studlyCaps.
For example, suppose I want to replace all instances of 'first' with
'last' and of 'First' with 'Last'. Can I do that with a slinge :s///
line?
Try this script:
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=6
keepcase.vim : Functions for doing case-persistant substitutions
Yakov
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