Vim Visincr

The visincr plugin facilitates making columns of increasing or decreasing numbers, dates, or daynames.

Instructions

1. Select a column using visual-block (ctrl-v) and move the cursor.
2. Choose what sort of incremented list you want.

Types of available increments

Key	Value
Increment	:I
Description	Will use the first line's number as a starting point to build a column of increasing numbers (or decreasing numbers if the increment is negative).
Default increment	1
Justification	Left (will pad on the right)

Key	Value
Increment	:II [# [zfill]]
Description	Will use the first line's number as a starting point to build a column of increasing numbers (or decreasing numbers if the increment is negative).
Default increment	1
Justification	right (will pad on the left)
Zfill	left padding will be done with the given character, typically a zero.

Key	Value
Increment	:IYMD (year/month/day), :IMDY (month/day/year), :IDMY (day/month/year)
Description	Will use the starting line's date to construct an increasing or decreasing list of dates, depending on the sign of the number.
Default increment	1 (in days)

Key	Value
Increment	:ID
Description	Will produce an increasing/decreasing list of daynames. Three-letter daynames will be used if the first day on the first line is a three letter dayname; otherwise, full names will be used.

Key	Value
Increment	:IO & :IIO
Similar to	:I and :II
Exception	Creates octal numbers.

Key	Value
Increment	:IR & :IIR
Similar to	:I and :II
Exception	Uses Roman numerals. Negative and zero counts are not supported for Roman numerals.

Key	Value
Increment	:IX & :IIX
Similar to	:I and :II
Exception	Creates hexadecimal numbers.

Notes

1. For :I :II :IO :IIO :IR :IIR: If the visual block is ragged on the right-hand side (as can easily happen when the "$" is used to select the right-hand-side), the block will have spaces appended to straighten it out. If the string length of the count exceeds the visual-block, then additional spaces will be inserted as needed. Leading tabs are handled by using virtual column calculations.
2. For :IR and :IIR: Since Roman numerals vary considerably in their lengths for nearby numbers, an additional two spaces will be included.
3. For :IYMD, :IMDY, and :IDMY: You 'll need the <calutil.vim> plugin.
4. Use :he visincr-examples to see even more examples of each command in action.

Examples:

Use following after selecting the block using ctrl-v:


1. :I

8            8
8            9
8            10
8            11
8            12

2. :I -1

8            8
8            7
8            6
8            5
8            4

3. :II

8             8
8             9
8            10
8            11
8            12

4. :II -1

8            8
8            7
8            6
8            5
8            4

5. :IMDY

06/10/03     6/10/03
06/10/03     6/11/03
06/10/03     6/12/03
06/10/03     6/13/03
06/10/03     6/14/03

6. :IYMD

03/06/10    03/06/10
03/06/10    03/06/11
03/06/10    03/06/12
03/06/10    03/06/13
03/06/10    03/06/14

7. :IDMY

10/06/03    10/06/03
10/06/03    11/06/03
10/06/03    12/06/03
10/06/03    13/06/03
10/06/03    14/06/03

8. :ID

Sun       Sun
Sun       Mon
Sun       Tue
Sun       Wed
Sun       Thu

9. :ID

Sunday     Sunday
Sunday     Monday
Sunday     Tuesday
Sunday     Wednesday
Sunday     Thursday

10. :IA

a          a
a          b
a          c
a          d
a          e

11. :IO

5         5
5         6
5         7
5         10
5         11

12. :IR

II         II
II         III
II         IV
II         V
II         VI

13. :IX

8         8
8         9
8         a
8         b
8         c

Credit

Charles Campbell is the original author of the plugin, more info can be found at his site. The plugin is moved to Github for easy installation using the modern plugin managers.