Re: The "leading zero means octal" thing...

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On 05.01.2025 07:33, Kenny McCormack wrote:

In article <vld4k2$2jao9$1@news.xmission.com>,
Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:

In article <eli$2501042055@qaz.wtf>,
Eli the Bearded  <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
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Vim is highly configurable. See ":help nrformats" for supported formats.
Not clearly documented in the version I have, but implied, is setting
it to a blank string to only recognize ordinary decimal numbers.
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:set nrformats=

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Thanks for the tip.  I'll look into that.

 
Yes, nf looks good.  I set it to "alpha", which makes it do the right thing
with letters, while ignoring the stupid hex/octal/bin stuff.

This 'alpha' is an interesting useful feature I didn't know. Thanks.
(It will go into my .vimrc file.)

Testing it I was a bit astonished, though, that (and different from
numbers) it just works on single letters without a "carry"; with the
string "say38", operating a 66^A on the number part creates "say104"
while at any character it stops increment at "z".

(I recall that I once had a requirement to enumerate some date as
aa, ab, ac, ..., az, ba, bb, ..., bz, ..., zz, and even continuing
zz with aaa, as with a numeric carry.)

Janis