Re: paste and increment a number

On Jun 7, 10:04 am, David <david.liffm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to paste a string that contains a number like "value1".
>
> Each time I paste I want to increment the number.
> The ultimate goal is something like 50p to do this 50 times.
> (value1\nvalue2\nvalue3...)
>
> I thought about pasting it 50 times first and run over the pasted
> lines with some cool regex, but I failed doing so.

You've found a plugin to do it anyway, but failing that, the cool
regex would be something like this:

First paste 50 copes of the line "valueX" then run

:let i=1
:g/X/s//\=i/|let i+=1

(As described by John Little, message #3 here:
http://groups.google.com/group/vim_use/tree/browse_frm/month/2011-04/b03722a98dcae38c?rnum=81&_done=%2Fgroup%2Fvim_use%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fmonth%2F2011-04%3F)

That doesn't quite work how you described it. If being able to
do something like "50p" is important I'd use a recording.
e.g. type these commands

:let i=1
qq
ivalue<Ctrl-R>=i<Enter><Enter><Escape>
:let i+= 1
q

then you can run 49@q to play it back to get 50 lines.

You can read up with ":help recording"

regards,
Geoff

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