vi case-change question

[Bo Thide']

In article <1055 at gtx.com> rich at 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?/


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