On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 07:42:05AM -0500, Tim Chase wrote:
>
> > I'm sure others will reply with functions etc to do this, but I tend to go
> > for:
>
> Of course...this is Vim so there regularly a multitude of ways to
> accomplish a goal :)
Indeed!
>
> > * Create a new file
> > * Enter '1' on the first line
> > * 'yy' (copy first line)
> > * '99p' (paste 99 times)
> > * Ctrl-V (visual block mode)
> > * G$ (select everything)
> > * :I (visual increment using Dr Chip's visincr.vim plugin [1])
>
> I case you don't want to bother with plugins (I like to keep my
> vim installs pretty native so I don't start leaning on things
> that aren't baked-in across all the umpteen machines I use), you
> can use
>
> yy (yank the initial empty/blank line)
> 99p (paste it 99 more times to get places to put line#s)
> :%s/^/\=line('.') (to put the current line# on each line)
>
>
> > Alternatively, just use perl:
> >
> > perl -e 'for($i=1;$i<=100;$i++) { print $i . "\n"; }' > filename.txt
>
>
> Or most *nix boxes have "seq" available:
>
> :0r! seq 100
> and optionally ":$d"/"Gdd" to delete the last/blank line
>
> :)
>
> -tim
>
>
>
> >
A pure Vimscript method that will work on boxes without Perl or seq
(I'm talking about you, WinXP):
:for i in range(1, 100) | exe "put =" i | endfor
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Erik Falor
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