Capitalize first letter of each word in a selection using vim

Question

In vim, I know we can use ~ to capitalize a single char (as mentioned in this question), but is there a way to capitalize the first letter of each word in a sel

Answer 1

You can use the following substitution:

s/\<./\u&/g

• \< matches the start of a word
• . matches the first character of a word
• \u tells Vim to uppercase the following character in the substitution string (&)
• & means substitute whatever was matched on the LHS