created by

stanislav sitar

script type

utility

description

Sometimes you want to search for a string in the text and add an auto incremented number to each occurence of the string. Let's say, you want to make a numbered list. You write something like: qwerty: The first line qwerty: the second one qwerty: and so on ... Then you type a command :let I=0 followed by a replace command :%s/qwerty/\=INC(1)/ The first 'qwerty' is replaced by number 1, the second by number 2, and so on... . Sometimes you might want to generate numbers with a leadimg zeroes. You simply initialize global variable I to value like :let I=99890000 then you make the replacement :%s/my_token_word/\=INC(1)/g followed by :%s/9989//g You have to initialize a global variable I before the first use of INC() function, othervise the numbering will continue where it stopped during the last replace. Text Pad has a very similar metacharacter for replacement - \i.

install details

Put increment.vim into a plugin directory. Use in replacement strings :%s/my_token_word_to_be_replaced_by_the_auto_incremented_numbers/\=INC(1)/g

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package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
increment.vim	0.1	2001-11-15	6.0	stanislav sitar	Initial upload

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