How to find and replace upper and lowercase and keep capitalization in Vim

Question

Let's say I have:

foo and Foo

How can I find and replace it to

bar and Bar

With one regex/find and replace command in Vim? By default I have my Vim setup to find either uppercase and lowercase when searching. Now I just want to replace keeping the capitalization. Is this even possible?

See here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/782511/case-preserving-substitute-in-vim — Martin Drautzburg, May 05 '13 at 21:59

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered May 06 '13 at 02:52

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I recommend Tim Pope's Abolish plugin. It provides the :Subvert or :S command for short that does exactly what you ask.

:%S/foo/bar/g

Drew Neil over at Vimcast has a nice screencast, Supercharged substitution with :Subvert.

answered May 06 '13 at 02:52

Peter Rincker

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score -1 · Answer 2 · answered May 05 '13 at 21:59

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I would suggest that you do set ignorecase! before and after your search. If you do case sensitive searching often then you can map this to something. If you do a lot with mixed cases and case matching you might want to look at plugins.

answered May 05 '13 at 21:59

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How to find and replace upper and lowercase and keep capitalization in Vim

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