XPost: comp.lang.tcl, comp.unix.shell   
   From: janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com   
      
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   On 05.01.2025 07:33, Kenny McCormack wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   > Kenny McCormack  wrote:   
   >> In article ,   
   >> Eli the Bearded  <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:   
   >> ...   
   >>> 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.   
   >>>   
   >>> 	:set nrformats=   
   >>   
   >> 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   
      
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