XPost: comp.lang.tcl, comp.unix.shell   
   From: makowiec@invalid.invalid   
      
   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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