Converting from camelcase to _ in emacs

Question

Is there an emacs function to convert a camel-cased word to underscore? Something, like:

longVariableName

M-x to-underscore

Answer 1

I use this when converting C# code to PHP.

(defun un-camelcase-word-at-point ()
  "un-camelcase the word at point, replacing uppercase chars with
the lowercase version preceded by an underscore.

The first char, if capitalized (eg, PascalCase) is just
downcased, no preceding underscore.
"
  (interactive)
  (save-excursion
    (let ((bounds (bounds-of-thing-at-point 'word)))
      (replace-regexp "\\([A-Z]\\)" "_\\1" nil
                      (1+ (car bounds)) (cdr bounds))
      (downcase-region (car bounds) (cdr bounds)))))

And then in my php-mode fn:

(local-set-key "\M-\C-C"  'un-camelcase-word-at-point)