 Tip #30: Increasing or decreasing numbers
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March 7, 2001 5:25 |
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neuron |
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To increase a number under or nearest to the right of the cursor, go to Normal mode and type:
Ctrl-A
To decrease, type:
Ctrl-X
Using this in a macro simplifies generating number sequences a lot.
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[email protected],
October 10, 2001 0:30
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I always looked for a possbility to create multiple lines with the same content only differing by an increasing or decreasing number. Probably haven't searched hard enough:
Create the first line with the number.
Set the cursor on the number.
Do: mnYP`n^A
Or create a macro with this and call it multiple times. The single quote must be the back quote ` not ', because ' goes to the beginning of the line in the mark and ` goes to the proper column/character-position. Furthermore the ^A = <CTRL>-A (see this page). You can as easily change to decreasing numbers.
Herman Suijs
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[email protected],
October 10, 2001 0:31
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I didn't even read properly, because the nearest number to the right is increased or decreased. If there is only 1 number on the line it doesn't matter if you use ` or '.
Sorry ;-)
Herman Suijs
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[email protected],
February 18, 2003 0:57
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Hi all
CTRL-A is used to add a number.
However, in gvim for win32, it became "select all".
Is there any way to change it back to increase a number instead of select all text in file?
Thanks
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[email protected],
May 15, 2003 7:01
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you just have to put
nunmap <C-A>
in your _vimrc file
Seib
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[email protected],
November 30, 2003 6:05
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Actually, that last comment won't work on win32. (at least when I tried it)
The correct version of that is:
:unmap <c-a>
Hope this helps someone else. :-)
- Mick
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sbbrouwer#gmail,com,
May 8, 2006 1:15
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Actually, that version does work --- in normal mode. Net. effect:
In normal mode, c-A increments.
In insert mode (or any other mode), c-A selects all.
Wicked!
--Esteis
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[email protected],
May 31, 2006 9:43
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| If you are trying to make this work in Windows, look into your _vimrc file. There is a line there that sources a file called mswin.vim, this maps a whole mess of things to try to make things work like normal Windows editors do (Ctrl-C for Copy, Ctrl-P for Paste, and so on) -- if this is not the way you want things to work, just remove the line that sources that file.
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