created by

Tim Pope

script type

utility

description

This is a plugin over 3 years in the making that I've deferred releasing, primarily because it's so gosh darn hard to explain.  It's three superficially unrelated plugins in one that share a common theme: working with variants of a word. ABBREVIATION I know how to spell separate.  I know how to spell desperate.  My fingers, however, have trouble distinguishing between the two, and I invariably have a 50 percent chance of typing seperate or desparate each time one of these comes up.  At first, I tried abbreviations: iabbrev  seperate  separate iabbrev desparate desperate But this falls short at the beginning of a sentence. iabbrev  Seperate  Separate iabbrev Desparate Desperate To be really thorough, we need uppercase too! iabbrev  SEPERATE  SEPARATE iabbrev DESPARATE DESPERATE Oh, but consider the noun form, and the adverb form! iabbrev  seperation  separation iabbrev desparation desperation iabbrev  seperately  separately iabbrev desparately desperately iabbrev  Seperation  separation iabbrev Desparation Desperation iabbrev  Seperately  Separately iabbrev Desparately Desperately iabbrev  SEPERATION  SEPARATION iabbrev DESPARATION DESPERATION iabbrev  SEPERATELY  SEPARATELY iabbrev DESPARATELY DESPERATELY Wait, there's also separates, separated, separating, separations, separator... Abolish.vim provides a simpler way.  The following one command produces 48 abbreviations including all of the above. Abolish {despa,sepe}rat{e,es,ed,ing,ely,ion,ions,or}  {despe,sepa}rat{} My current configuration has 25 Abolish commands that create hundreds of corrections my fingers refuse to learn. SUBSTITUTION One time I had an application that with a domain model called "facilities" that needed to be renamed to "buildings". So, a simple search and replace, right? :%s/facility/building/g Oh, but the case variants! :%s/Facility/Building/g :%s/FACILITY/BUILDING/g Wait, the plural is more than "s" so we need to get that too! :%s/facilities/buildings/g :%s/Facilities/Buildings/g :%s/FACILITIES/BUILDINGS/g Abolish.vim has your back.  One command to do all six, and you can repeat it with & too! :%Subvert/facilit{y,ies}/building{,s}/g You can abbreviate it as :S, and it accepts the full range of flags including things like c (confirm). There's also a variant for searching and a variant for grepping. COERCION Want to turn fooBar into foo_bar?  Press crs (coerce to snake_case). MixedCase, camelCase, snake_case, and UPPER_CASE are all just 3 keystrokes away.

install details

Extract in ~/.vim or ~\vimfiles. Grab the very latest from http://github.com/tpope/vim-abolish

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package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
abolish.zip	1.2	2023-02-26	7.0	Tim Pope	Add coercions for "space case" (cr<Space>) and "Title Case" (crt). Add "PascalCase" (crp) coercion alias for "MixedCase" (crm). Drop dependence on repeat.vim.
abolish.zip	1.1	2015-06-03	7.0	Tim Pope	Add . dot case coercion. Add U alias for uppercase coercion. Add k "kebab" alias for dash case coercion. Fix issues with coercion to dash case. Fix issues with 'clipboard' option. Fix abbreviation persistence. Escape magic characters in substitution.
abolish.zip	1.0	2009-10-09	7.0	Tim Pope	Initial upload

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