Gene Kwiecinski wrote:
I have a text with many quotations, that I want to change the case.
Currently the text of the quote is in all caps. I want to change it to
capitalize only the first letter of each word. The text I want to
(snip)
'&' is the matched pattern. "\L&" will take the matched pattern and
lcase it all, then "\u&" will just ucase the initial letter of a word.
So each respective pass will be
WORDS TO INITCAP originally
words to initcap after lcasing it all
Words To Initcap after the initcap
Someone here might have a more elegant way of doing it, but I've done it
this way in the past for so long it's practically a macro to me.
Fwiw:
\L lcase everything
\l lcase initial letter of each word
\U ucase everything
\u ucase initial letter of each word
What I use:
vno <silent> <Leader>ft :B s/\<\(\S\)\(\S*\)\>/\u\1\L\2\E/g<cr>
This is a vmap, so use it with visual mode (V, v, or ctrl-v). Plus, it
uses my :B command, which restricts substitutes to just the visually
highlighted region. That map is available as part of vis.vim, itself
available at:
http://mysite.verizon.net/astronaut/vim/index.html#VIS
or a more stable version from:
http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=1195
Regards,
Chip Campbell
