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From: timm@skye.sybase.com (Tim Meazell)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Change cases in VI
Message-ID: <12137@sybase.sybase.com>
Date: 19 Dec 90 18:26:55 GMT
References: <1990Dec11.011804.14702@pa.dec.com> <1990Dec11.041717.18604@hoss.unl.edu>
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In article <1990Dec11.041717.18604@hoss.unl.edu> sanjiv@hoss.unl.edu (Sanjiv K. Bhatia) writes:
>In article <1990Dec11.011804.14702@pa.dec.com> reader@wsl.dec.com (News Reader) writes:
>>
>>Is there an easy way to change the whole file from upper case to lower case or
>>vice versa? I don't want to do 26 substitutions to change character by
>>character.
>
>Here it is:
>
>    :%!tr "[A-Z]" "[a-z]"
>


Having had considerable trouble with "tr" and its various
implementations, my favorite is the more portable:

    :%!dd conv=ucase

Haven't been able to get rid of the 2 diagnostic lines...
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