visual-increment.vim

Description

This plugin adds a simple functionality that creates increasing and decreasing number or letter sequences on multiple lines via visual mode.

Simply select the desired columns via visual mode and use standard vim mapping for adding or subtracting.

Usage

1. For example, we have an array of 5 items and we would like to define them:

    example[0] = 'e';
    example[0] = 'e';
    example[0] = 'e';
    example[0] = 'e';
    example[0] = 'e';
   

2. Press <C-V> at the first index and select all the index columns on multiple lines, press <C-A>:

    example[0] = 'e';
    example[1] = 'e';
    example[2] = 'e';
    example[3] = 'e';
    example[4] = 'e';
   

Increment steps

You can use [count] to define the “increment step” between each line. For example, by pressing 5<C-A> at the index column, you will get:

example[5] = 'e';
example[10] = 'e';
example[15] = 'e';
example[20] = 'e';
example[25] = 'e';

Letter sequence

You need to add the following line to your .vimrc file:

set nrformats=alpha

The letter sequence is then created via <C-X> as expected:

example[0] = 'e';
example[1] = 'd';
example[2] = 'c';
example[3] = 'b';
example[4] = 'a';

Octal & Hex sequences

To create octal or hexadecimal sequences, simply add the respective option to the nrformats:

set nrformats=alpha,octal,hex

Octal numbers start with a zero:

example[0] = 01;
example[1] = 06;
example[2] = 013;
example[3] = 020;
example[4] = 025;

Hexadecimal numbers start with 0x or 0X:

example[0] = 0x1;
example[1] = 0x6;
example[2] = 0xb;
example[3] = 0x10;
example[4] = 0x15;

License

visual-increment is released under the MIT license:

Copyright 2011 Matej Svec. All rights reserved.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

The software is provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and noninfringement. In no event shall the authors or copyright holders be liable for any claim, damages or other liability, whether in an action of contract, tort or otherwise, arising from, out of or in connection with the software or the use or other dealings in the software.