Note to self: Title Case in vim

Strictly as a note to myself, because I’ll never remember this on its own …

:s/\<\(\w\)\(\w*\)\>/\u\1\L\2/g

That will convert a line of text to Title Case in vim, either on the line it’s issued or over selected blocks.

vim has single-key case conversion anyway (the tilde key) but this might be the quickest way to arbitrarily switch everything to title case.

Not my discovery or idea; found by way of the Vim Tips Wiki.

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2 Responses to “Note to self: Title Case in vim”


  1. 1 Celsius1414 2011/03/07 at 9:32 AM

    Bonus tip: record a macro to do this with a single key combo.

  2. 2 Tim 2011/03/18 at 5:05 AM

    To be honest, I’d rather just do: ~w.w.w.w.w.w.w [...]

    It’s easier for me to mash the w and . keys than it is to find and copy in that regex monstrosity.


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