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Case preserving substitute in Vim

Can we do case-insensitive substitution and preserve existing case in Vim?

What I mean is: searching for BadJob and replacing with GoodJob would do the following replacements:

'badjob' -> 'goodjob'  
'BadJob' -> 'GoodJob'  
'badJob' -> 'goodJob'  
'BADJOB' -> 'GOODJOB'

Similar question for Visual Studio: Case preserving find/replace in Visual Studio

Solution

  • Use abolish.vim:

    :%S/badjob/goodjob/g