On 2018-01-18 22:41, Gua Chung Lim wrote: > For example gUw is the keystrokes to change the > > current word to uppercase. Can I put gUw into the command like... > > > > :%s/^foobar/gUw/g > > to change any foobar at the beginning of the line to FOOBAR? > > (I know this is a wrong example, I'm trying my hard time to > > explain. ;-p ) > I found it. > :g/^foobar/norm! gUw
For this particular one (replacing a pattern with its uppercase version), you can use :%s/^foobar/\U& There's a lot of power in Vim's search-and-replace, so it's worth reading up at :help sub-replace-special and continuing on to read at :help :s% -tim -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
