Re: Q&A: MSDOS SET command gave me some of my mapped commands

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On Mi, 31 Dez 2025, Mark Manning wrote:

> One last message. Plus zero did not work. Yes, it is acting as if it
> were octal. Vim should not really do that as sometimes people do put
> zeros in front of the number. (At least, this old fogey remembers when
> people used to do that all of the time.)

I am afraid that ship has sailed long ago.

> Here is what works:
>
> str2nr( $value, $type )
>
> So I used str2nr( $ext, 10 )
>
> And that forced it to keep the number as 10. Just thinking aloud here
> but it would be nice to have 0b for binary, 0c for octal, 0x for
> hexadecimal, and 0d for decimal. But I guess no one wants to do that.
> :-)

:h expr-number

Thanks,
Christian
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