Two plugins offer this feature:
I use a plugin called String Manipulation which does what you need (and more).
Select historyOfPresentIllness and press Alt / option+M to bring up the plugin menu, then press:
- 5 – To snake_case (or to camelCase) which converts to
history_of_present_illness - 6 – To hyphen-case (or to snake_case) which converts to
history-of-present-illness
To make this easier, you could set up a shortcut at File | Settings | Keymap.
There also is the CamelCase plugin.
SHIFT+Alt / option+U toggles the selection between formats:
historyOfPresentIllness –> history_of_present_illness –> HISTORY_OF_PRESENT_ILLNESS –> HistoryOfPresentIllness –> historyOfPresentIllness
You can also undo your changes (now that a bug in the plugin got fixed).