Hey,
On 25.12.2012, at 12:10, Tony Mechelynck <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 24/12/12 02:55, stosss wrote:
>> *CTRL-A*
>> CTRL-A Add [count] to the number or alphabetic
>> character at
>> or after the cursor. {not in Vi}
>>
>> *CTRL-X*
>> CTRL-X Subtract [count] from the number or alphabetic
>> character at or after the cursor. {not in Vi}
>>
>> These use to work as described from help but now they are doing the
>> opposite. I don't know how that happened.
>>
>
> From the answers you got, I see you weren't the first to fall into the same
> pitfall. Me too I was surprised the first time, and then after some seconds
> the penny fell and I realized that Vim cannot tell apart a dash (a "-"
> punctuation mark, as in 2012-12-25 or firefox-20.0a1) and a minus sign. I
> still occasionally fall into it, and then it's "Duh! I forgot that for Vim, a
> dash before a number makes the number negative".
>
Tim Pope created a Plugin[1] some Time ago, where he actually tried to fix this
behavior by creating "Date" Patterns, witch recognize the dash correctly. Might
be worth looking into
[1]: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2120
> Merry Christmas!
> Tony.
Merry Christmas,
Franz
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