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From: larry@tessi.uucp (Larry Gillespie)
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Subject: Okay, now, how to you change case of a *word* in vi?
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Date: 14 Dec 90 21:10:49 GMT
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Organization: Test Systems Strategies, Beaverton, Oregon
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After seeing people discussing how to change an entire file, or a line,
to upper or lower case, I'd like to ask a harder one.  For years, I've
tried to figure out a way to change the case of just a single word
(or, optionally, 'W'ord), and, extrapolating, a number of words (using
a range specification).  A friend of mine figured out a most ineligant
way of doing a single word, but it's not acceptable, because the display
does lots of ugly things while it's working.  And, it can't take an
argument.

Further, I also want a real hard one.  I want to be able to
switch the case of what is found there, not just up-case or low-case
everything.  I guess what I'd like is for '~' to be able to take a
range argument.

That not being the case, have you or anybody you know got the wizardry
to to that (hopefully elegantly)?  I am the humble admirer of the one
with the answers to these questions that I pose.


-Larry Gillespie
Test Systems Strategies, Inc., 8205 SW Creekside Pl., Beaverton, Ore.  97005
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