James McCoy wrote: > > > > > The other day in #vim, someone was wondering why :s/SOMEWORD/\L\u&/ > > > > > was resulting in sOMEWORD instead of title-case (Someword). > > > > > > > > > > That seemed like a reasonable expectation and is how PCRE would treat > > > > > that substitution, so I came up with the attached patch to make Vim > > > > > work > > > > > like that. Also included are tests. > > > > > > > > Thanks, sounds like a good solution. Implementation is fairly simple. > > > > > > > > Can you also write an update for the documentation? > > > > > > That's the other part I forgot to mention. The documentation already > > > describes the behavior I implemented. > > > > Where? I cannot find a match for \L\u in the documentation. > > The s/\L topic states > > following characters made uppercase, until \E > > and s/\u states > > next character made uppercase > > so a \u should only affect the character after it, not terminate the > existing \L effect. Were you looking for this specific example to be > documented?
But it never worked that way, so far a \u would undo a previous \L. That was not explicitly mentioned, but it has always worked that way. I think it's good to explicitly state how this works. There should be a specific example of how to change a line of words into title case. It's very useful. We might even want to put it in the user manual. That would be usr_10.txt -- FATAL ERROR! SYSTEM HALTED! - Press any key to continue doing nothing. /// Bram Moolenaar -- [email protected] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ an exciting new programming language -- http://www.Zimbu.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
