created by

Ely Schoenfeld

script type

utility

description

This is a great (I think) improvement of the plugin increment.vim made by William Natter (natter at magma.ca) (vimscript #842). I tried to contact William, but his mailbox does not exist... So here it goes. As William wrote: "This is a handy plugin that makes easy replacing your favorite pattern ("@" by default) with a sequence of incremented values using the "Inc" command.  " Besides what the original script can do, it has two new features:     a) Now you are able to search for a pattern and replace the Nth word from the beginning of the line with the incremental number.     b) And also you can get a confirmation message before change. The help file is also greatly improved. Here is an example:        You have: (beginning with spaces only)            ----- cut -----                    LMsgInstall6 = 7; // @                  LMsgInstall7 = 8;   // @                LMsgInstall8 = 9;     // @                {STANDALONE}                LErrConnectionStandAlone1 = 10; //THIS                LErrConnectionStandAlone3 = 7; //THIS                LErrConnectionStandAlone5 = 12; //THIS            {some text}                LMsgExitConfirm = 30;            ...            ----- cut -----        You do: (with confirmation)            :'<,'>Inc p^\ *\\\<\[A-Za-z0-9_]*\\\>\ =\ [0-9]* w3 i25 s100 c                                    (Note that I had to use tree "\" before the "<" sign. Since Vim 7 the "<" and ">" have to be skiped by a "\")        You get:            ----- cut -----                    LMsgInstall6 = 100; // @                  LMsgInstall7 = 125;   // @                LMsgInstall8 = 150;     // @                {STANDALONE}                LErrConnectionStandAlone1 = 175; //THIS                LErrConnectionStandAlone3 = 200; //THIS                LErrConnectionStandAlone5 = 225; //THIS            {some text}                LMsgExitConfirm = 250;            ...            ----- cut -----        Then you do: (without confirmation)            :'<,'>Inc pTHIS w3 i3 s5        You get:            ----- cut -----                    LMsgInstall6 = 100; // @                  LMsgInstall7 = 125;   // @                LMsgInstall8 = 150;     // @                {STANDALONE}                LErrConnectionStandAlone1 = 5; //THIS                LErrConnectionStandAlone3 = 8; //THIS                LErrConnectionStandAlone5 = 11; //THIS            {some text}                LMsgExitConfirm = 250;            ...            ----- cut -----        Then you do: (without confirmation)            :'<,'>Inc        You get:            ----- cut -----                    LMsgInstall6 = 100; // 0                  LMsgInstall7 = 125;   // 1                LMsgInstall8 = 150;     // 2                {STANDALONE}                LErrConnectionStandAlone1 = 5; //THIS                LErrConnectionStandAlone3 = 8; //THIS                LErrConnectionStandAlone5 = 11; //THIS            {some text}                LMsgExitConfirm = 250;            ...            ----- cut ----- Hope it helps. Keywords: Inc Increment increment increment.vimnumber numbers num replace substitute subst pattern regex

install details

- Put increment_new.vim into a plugin directory. - Put increment_new.txt into a doc directory.   (see :set runtimepath) For example in *nix OS:     - The plugin directory should be: ~/.vim/plugin     - The doc directory should be: ~/.vim/doc     Something like:         mkdir ~/.vim         cd ~/.vim         tar -zxvf increment_new.tar.gz For example in Windows:     - The plugin directory should be: %PROGRAMFILES%\Vim\vimfiles\plugin     - The doc directory should be: %PROGRAMFILES%\Vim\vimfiles\doc     (To extract the files from a tar.gz in windows, I use a great program called 7Zip (http://www.7-zip.org) -Install Help     To be able to do:         :help Inc     in vim, you have to do, for example:         :helptags ~/.vim/doc or         :helptags C:\Program Files\Vim\vimfiles\doc

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package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
increment_new.tar.gz	1.1	2007-06-23	7.0	Ely Schoenfeld	Changes in documentation for better installation instructions and since something changed in the regular expression matching in Vim7. Now I have to escape the "<" and ">" with "\"
increment_new.tar.gz	1.0	2005-02-04	6.0	Ely Schoenfeld	Initial upload

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