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

On 04 Jan 2025 in comp.editors, Kenny McCormack wrote:

I hit this in VIM - where if the cursor is sitting on the zero in a
string like Foo07 and you hit ^A, it changes it to - are you ready?
- not Foo08, but Foo010.

For what it's worth, I tried this in my edition of vim (v 9.1 on
Fedora 41, pretty much default). It incremented Foo07 to Foo08. I dug
into /usr/share/vim/vim91/defaults.vim and found this:

" Do not recognize octal numbers for Ctrl-A and Ctrl-X, most users find it
" confusing.
set nrformats-=octal

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