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What is the most convenient way to do search and replace for same words in multiple formats. I often find myself doing tons of regular expressions as follows.
:%s/scubaDiver/deviceDriver/g
:%s/ScubaDiver/DeviceDriver/g
:%s/scuba_diver/device_driver/g
:%s/Scuba_diver/Device_driver/g
:%s/scuba-diver/device-driver/g
:%s/Scuba-diver/Device-driver/g
:%s/SCUBA-DIVER/DEVICE-DRIVER/g
The vim-abolish plug-in has a :Subvert command that does something very close to what you want.
This command covers 5 of the 7 cases you mentioned:
%Subvert/scuba{_,-,}Diver/device{_,-,}Driver
It doesn't seem to cover the cases with a delimiter and mixed case, in specific Scuba_diver and Scuba-diver, presumably because it will try to define the most common capitalizations you'd encounter in coding conventions (camel case, snake case, etc.) Maybe there's a way to get it to cover all these exact cases, but it wasn't immediately apparent to me how to do so (digging further might uncover it.)
