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vim-abolish

abolish.vim: Work with several variants of a word at once

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abolish.vim: Work with several variants of a word at once

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WizardClickBoy·Sep 3, 2024

This reminds me of the substitution mode of Tim Pope's amazing vim plugin [abolish](https://github.com/tpope/vim-abolish?tab=readme-ov-file#subs...) Basically in vim to substitute text you'd usually do something with :substitute (or :s), like: :%s/textToSubstitute/replacementText/g ...and have to add a pattern for each differently-cased version of the text. With the :Subvert command (or :S) you can do all three at once, while maintaining the casing for each replacement. So this: textToSubstitute TextToSubstitute texttosubstitute :%S/textToSubstitute/replacementText/g ...results in: replacementText ReplacementText replacementtext

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pengaru·Jan 16, 2023

That's available in vim via the vim-abolish[0] plugin... which has other capabilities, but the one I take advantage of is case-preserving S/one/two/ which does what you want. It's odd vim doesn't have that builtin, I'm half convinced it does and I just haven't dug enough to find it. [0] https://github.com/tpope/vim-abolish

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datagram·Mar 17, 2022

The best thing about Vim is that you don't have to choose between Vim and an IDE! Any text editor or IDE that's even moderately popular will probably have a decent Vim plugin. The only downside is that you generally won't have access to Vim plugins (abolish.vim is the one I find myself missing the most: https://github.com/tpope/vim-abolish). Personally, I learned to use Vim via the VsVim plugin for Visual Studio.

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datagram·Aug 28, 2020

> until one day I discovered a plugin for VSCode that embeds Vim Pretty much any editor with plugin support ends up with at least one Vim plugin. In addition to VSCode, Sublime, Atom, and Emacs all have Vim plugins (Sublime's is even built-in, but disabled by default). To me this is the best of both worlds, since I can take advantage of all the nice features from my IDEs while still having the efficiency of Vim editing. Honestly, the thing I miss the most from full-fledged Vim is the Subvert command from abolish.vim (https://github.com/tpope/vim-abolish).

In Editor Overload

camtarn·Nov 17, 2018Submission

Abolish.vim – super-powerful word substitution, case coercion, and abbreviation

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inDigiNeous·Apr 13, 2016

The fact that I can customize VIM to suit my needs with modern methods and plugins that bring same kind of functionality found in more modern editors/development envs to the powerhouse that is VIM. For example, these are some of my favorites: https://valloric.github.io/YouCompleteMe/ - Code completion for C/C++ and other languages https://github.com/ctrlpvim/ctrlp.vim - TextMate style ctrl+p fuzzy file finder https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree - Tree explorer plugin for browsing files https://github.com/vim-airline/vim-airline - Customizable status line for showing all kinds of useful info about currently edited file https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive - Git wrapper that works together with airline https://github.com/mhinz/vim-startify - Shows your most recently edited files and favorite files on the start screen https://github.com/

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tpope/vim-abolish - Smart text replacement, easily replace eg. getColor, GetColor -> getTransparency, GetColor and so on And this combined with the fact that I can do all of this from the tip of my fingers, without having to touch the mouse, with high customizable commands that go into my muscle memory, there is no substitute for VIM for me. I've worked with Eclipse, Xcode, Visual Studio. They have some pretty nice features, like interactive debugging that are hard to replicate with Vim, but I'm more of a "print debug message" kind of guy anyway, so that doesn't bother me. The biggest hinderance with Visual UIs is that I have to use the mouse, and that sucks. So much faster to do text selection, copying, replacement, renaming and so on straight from the keyboard, once you get used to it. I'm still discovering active new ways to customize VIM after over 15 years of using it.

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