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Last Updated: February 25, 2017 ·  12.1K · nicolaslazartekaqui

Vim - Convert text to lowercase or

uppercase
VIM

To convert all text to lowercase in vim do

ggVGu

or uppercase

ggVGU

look at the command ggVG is used to select all the text if you want you
can select the text and use U or u to convert what was selected to
uppercase or lowercase.

If you want use this function in search/replace, do this to lowercase

(example)

:%s/[A-Z]/\L&/g

or to uppercase (example)

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:%s/[A-Z]/\U&/g

Or if you want use this function in character, you can switch case doing
this in character

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dpadilla
Thanks for the information!
One small correction, to change to uppercase needs to find lowercase
characters:
:%s/[a-z]/\U&/g

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