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ibrahim
ibrahim

Reputation: 33

Capitilize lines starting with ** in vim

I am trying to capitalize every line starting with int. or INT.

Following command 

    %s/\<int.*\>/\U&/gi

capitalize lines like international, integer too. (I know I can add c and search it then confirm it but I prefer adding that to my .vimrc and having the result whenever I save the file.)

So how can I only capitalize lines starting with int . (int period space another word(s)..) I tried

%s/\<int.\s*\>/\U&/g

but it didn't work.

Thanks.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 114

Answers (3)

Kent
Kent

Reputation: 195209

I would do with :g command:

:g/^int\./norm! gUU

Some Notes:

  • the above line works for option ic set. I feel it convenient to have ic and scs set.

  • the line below works no matter if you have ic set or not:

    :g/\c^int\./norm! gUU

Upvotes: 3

P&#233;ha
P&#233;ha

Reputation: 2933

Just saying: it seems easier to do with :g.

Something like:

:g/\v^(int|INT)\./norm! gUU
  • \v activates the very-magic mode for regexp, not mandatory but I find it easier this way,
  • :g takes all the lines matching the pattern, and launches norm! gUU for each of those lines (thanks to @Kent for the tip!). As you know, gUU in normal mode transforms the whole line to uppercase.

More info about :g here : http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Power_of_g That's easily one killer feature of Vim that many users don't know of. I couldn't live without it!

Upvotes: 1

Wiktor Stribiżew
Wiktor Stribiżew

Reputation: 627263

You need to use

%s/^int\..*/\U&/i

Here,

  • ^ - start of string
  • int\. - a int. substring
  • .* - all text to the end of the line.

The \U& replacement turns all the matched text to upper case.

The i flag makes matching case insensitive. Note you do not need g here as the command will affect all lines, and there is only 1 match per line.

Upvotes: 4

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