On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 11:24 AM, Ben Fritz <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Monday, February 1, 2016 at 9:00:25 AM UTC-6, Charles Campbell wrote:
> > [email protected] wrote:
> > > I'm coding in Python and need to produce a number of lines like the
> following
> > >
> > >> p3[0] = {'name': , 'symbol': , 'number': }
> > >> p3[1] = {'name': , 'symbol': , 'number': }
> > >> ...
> > > and I'm wondering the best way to go about this.  My main thought is
> to just copy-paste and maybe fill the brackets with some kind of
> place-keeper and then try to figure out a way to sequentially replace them
> with increasing integers.  But somehow it seems like there out to be a more
> elegant Vim solution.
> > >
> > > Any thoughts?
> > >
> > I'd write the first line:
> >   p3[0] = ...
> >
> > Yank it (Y) and put it (say I wanted twenty copies:  19p
> > Then I'd use ctrl-v and highlight all the 0s.
> > Then I'd use  :I
> >
> > The latter command is supported by visincr
> > (http://www.drchip.org/astronaut/vim/index.html#VISINCR).  It can do
> > incrementing/decrementing things with binary, octal, hexadecimal, roman
> > numerals, daynames, monthnames, and dates (ymd, dmy, mdy).
> >
> > Regards,
> > Chip Campbell
>
> Sometime this year (I think patches 754-823) the g_CTRL-A command was
> introduced to create increasing sequences of integers (:help v_g_CTRL-A).
> Also CTRL-A/CTRL-X was modified to respect visual mode better. So the
> plugin is probably not even required anymore.
>
>
I don't think I'd quite say that. This plugin is capable of much more than
just this specific example. Thank you, by the way, I knew that CTRL-A/X had
been modified to work in visual mode, but I was not aware of the g_CTRL_A/X
variant! That is super useful!

Cheers!

Ethan Alan

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