VI changing to lowercase

Posted on June 2, 2020 by morsing

I don’t know why I can never remember this one, but here it is for reference:

:%s/.*/\L&

.* = Match line
& = What was matched

No need for /g as .* already matches the line, and .* if faster than /g

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One Response to VI changing to lowercase

  1. morsing says:
    June 9, 2020 at 7:03 am

    And here’s another one, replacing with newline CR/LF:

    :s/,/,^M/g

    ^M = ctrl-V ctrl-M

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