rich@gtx.com (Rich Holloway) (07/01/89)
In vi, I would like to use the '~' operation on more than one character at a time, but don't really want to take on the overhead of shelling out to "tr" or somesuch. To wit, what I would like is a way to convert upper to lower from the cursor to the end of line. For example, FOOBAR DS.L 3 TABLE OF THREE FOO LONG WORDS I'd like to be able to put the cursor at the beginning of "TABLE", enter some non-shell-escape command (if possible) and get the line: FOOBAR DS.L 3 table of three foo long words Any ideas? Comments such as "get a REAL editor" and "use emacs instead" will be met with rotten tomatoes, as these are not options. E-mailed responses welcome, I'll summarize if there's interest. Merci d'avance, rich -- Richard L. Holloway ...!sun!sunburn!gtx!rich GTX Corporation, Phoenix, Arizona
irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide') (07/02/89)
In article <1055@gtx.com> rich@gtx.com (Rich Holloway) writes: > >In vi, I would like to use the '~' operation on more than one character >at a time, but don't really want to take on the overhead of shelling out >to "tr" or somesuch. To wit, what I would like is a way to convert > [deleted] There are alternatives to using '~' in vi: :s/<pattern>/\U& will change <pattern> to upper case :s/<pattern>/\L& will change <pattern> to lower case Quite useful sometimes. Perhaps for you too?/ ^ Bo Thide'-------------------------------------------------------------- | | Swedish Institute of Space Physics, S-755 91 Uppsala, Sweden |I| [In Swedish: Institutet f|r RymdFysik, Uppsalaavdelningen (IRFU)] |R| Phone: (+46) 18-403000. Telex: 76036 (IRFUPP S). Fax: (+46) 18-403100 /|F|\ INTERNET: bt@irfu.se UUCP: ...!uunet!sunic!irfu!bt ~~U~~ -----------------------------------------------------------------sm5dfw
wk@hpirs.HP.COM (Wayne Krone) (07/06/89)
> In vi, I would like to use the '~' operation on more than one character
In addition to Bo's suggestions, HP-UX vi for releases s800 3.0 and
s300 6.5 or later has been modified to accept a count before the "~"
operator. So for your example the command "99~" would do what you
want.
Wayne