>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
change
>can be either a single word, multiple words on a single line, or
>multiple words on multiple line, as follows:
If you know the beginning/ending lines (absolute numbers, marks, etc.),
you can do
:'m,'ns/.*/\L&/gp marks 'm' and 'n' set
previously
:'m,'ns/.*/\u&/gp
:10,50s/.*/\L&/gp absolute linenos 10
through 50 inclusive
:10,50s/.*/\u&/gp
etc.
'&' 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
Hth.
