Convert snake_case to CamelCase in Vim

#vim #bash #fish #perl

This is a small snippet.

Create this function in your shell:

# .bashrc / .zshrc

camelcase() {
    perl -pe 's#(_|^)(.)#\u$2#g'
}

If you use fish:

# .config/fish/config.fish

function camelcase
    perl -pe 's#(_|^)(.)#\u$2#g'
end

Then, you can convert standard input to CamelCase:

~> echo array_map | camelcase
ArrayMap

These functions are useful themselves. Furthermore, you can use them in Vim.

Select snake_case lines to be converted, then type !camelcase then press return key.

Appendix

You can convert CamelCase to snake_case with this function:

function snakecase
    perl -pe 's#([A-Z])#_\L$1#g' | perl -pe 's#^_##'
end

We can enhance vim using command line function.
Hope this article helps you have a better CUI experience in Vim.

Top comments (8)

Andreas Schnapp • Apr 19 '18

Nice article and example how powerfull normal shell function calls can be in vim.

If you want a elegant long term solution for allcase types (snake- camel- mixed- dot-cases) then I would recommend to take a look at this plugin from tpope (expecially take a look at the Coercion hotkeys):

github.com/tpope/vim-abolish

Kay Gosho • Apr 19 '18

Thank you for your comment!
Yes, I wanted to tell that we can easily enhance vim with shell commands.
For me vim script is hard to code, so I wrote this function.

Thank you for sharing nice plugin, too. Coercion looks nice with less type :)